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    The Colt Model 187172 Open Top is a metallic cartridge rear-loading .44-caliber revolver introduced in 1872 by the Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing...
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    conversions, Mason began work on Colt's first metallic cartridge revolvers in 1871: the Colt Model 1871-72 "Open Top" revolver was the third such pistol, following...
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    51, Gustav Young engraving Top: Navy 51 .38 Conversion, below Colt Model 1871-72 Open Top "The First Russian Revolvers - Colt". Archived from the original...
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    (1855) Colt 1860 Army (1860) Colt 1861 Navy (1861) Colt Model 1862 Pocket Police (1862) Colt House (1871) Colt Open Top Pocket Model Revolver (1871) Colt Model...
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    The Colt Single Action Army (also known as the SAA, Model P, Peacemaker, or M1873) is a single-action revolver handgun. It was designed for the U.S. government...
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  • blackpowder and cartridge revolvers such as the "Richards" Conversion, "Richards-Mason" Conversion and the Colt Model 1871-72 Open Top revolvers. In 2011 Cimarron...
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    conversion and the Colt Model 1871-72 "Open Top" revolvers were available in .44 Henry. From 1875 until 1880, Colt produced the Model 1873 Single Action Army...
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  • Pocket Revolver " Root Revolver" (USA – revolver – c.1855) Colt Model 187172 Open Top (USA – revolver1871) Colt New Line (USA – revolver – 1873) Colt Open...
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    This is a list of single- and double-action revolvers, listed alphabetically by manufacturer. The table is sortable for every column. List of firearms...
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    when cycling the action. Colt briefly manufactured several revolving shotguns that were not particularly successful. The Colt Model 1839 Shotgun was manufactured...
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  • fabrication by Lake, the revolver could have been specially ordered from the Colt factory in Hartford, Connecticut. Several revolvers with 16-inch barrels...
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  • than 20% of the houses in Dublin. 1847 – Samuel Colt obtains his first contract for the sale of revolver pistols to the United States government. 1870 –...
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    mid-1880s and were often equipped with tubular magazines. The Mauser Model 1871 was originally a single-shot action that added a tubular magazine in its...
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    often purchased their own firearms. Although some bought Colt revolvers, the Adams revolvers were reckoned to be better suited to British needs, with...
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    a third revolver in the Army (.44) caliber. If they could not obtain a Colt, they bought a Remington Model 1858, a Colt Model 1848, or a Colt Walker M1847...
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    Beaumont–Adams .44 percussion revolver. Other revolvers in use were the Colt Navy .36 1851 model with open top frame. The Colt was favoured by the Forest...
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    Hal (2008). Famous Firearms of the Old West: From Wild Bill Hickok's Colt Revolvers to Geronimo's Winchester, Twelve Guns That Shaped Our History. TwoDot...
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  • Daily Chronicle, Volume 1, Number 230 (Knoxville, Tennessee). January 28, 1871. p. 4. Archived from the original on March 23, 2016. "A School Principal...
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  • apparatus Pierre Janssen was inspired by the revolving cylinder of Samuel Colt's revolver. 1875 – the physiologist Sigmund Exner showed that, under the right...
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    Ruger, and Taurus models were popular with police officers, the most popular being .38 caliber revolvers produced by Smith & Wesson or Colt. Since then, most...
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    needed] The first marketable revolver was produced in Paterson by Samuel Colt starting in 1836, and was known as the Colt Paterson. The first steam-powered...
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    first appearance at Lord's for the Colts of England against the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC). His batting was modelled on that of Richard Daft. The season...
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  • referred to as "Pentagon" papers in the episode, however the cover of the top booklet reads "FBIS Reports 1–31 August 1972". The Foreign Broadcast Information...
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  • Antonio Broccu (1797–1882), artisan. Generally regarded as the inventor of Revolver (1833) Alessandro Cagliostro (1743–1795), charlatan, magician, and adventurer...
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  • auction discover two seaplane pontoons and a pair of revolvers: a .44 Magnum and a Smith & Wesson Model 500. Paid $1,725 Value $10,460 Profit $8,735 38 3...
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