Colt Model 1851 Navy Percussion Revolver, serial no. 2
1850
Medium
Steel, brass, silver, wood (walnut)
Dimensions
L. of barrel 7 1/2 in. (19.05 cm); Cal. .38 in. (10 mm)
Classification
Firearms-Pistols-Revolvers
Culture
American, Hartford, Connecticut
Department
Arms and Armor
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of John E. Parsons, 1968
Accession Number
68.157.2
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Samuel Colt · 1814–1862
Samuel Colt was born on July 19, 1814, in Hartford, Connecticut, to Christopher Colt, a textile manufacturer, and Sarah Caldwell. His early years were marked by family tragedy, including the death of his mother from tuberculosis when he was six, after which his father remarried. At age 11, Colt was indentured to a farmer and later worked in his father's textile mill in Ware, Massachusetts, where h...