Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (serial no. 63306)
Medium
Steel, copper alloy, gold, wood (walnut)
Dimensions
L. 8 11/16 in. (22.1 cm); L. of barrel 4 in. (10.2 cm); Cal. .31 in. (7.9 mm); Wt. 1 lb. 7.7 oz. (672 g)
Classification
Firearms-Pistols-Revolvers
Culture
American, Hartford, Connecticut
Department
Arms and Armor
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of The Robert M. Lee Foundation, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2018
Accession Number
2018.856.1
Rights
Public Domain
About the Artist
Samuel Colt|Waterman Lilly Ormsby · 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...