(INVENTORS) SAMUEL COLT Autograph Letter Signed SamlColt to

Sale 2351 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 5,376

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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 2,000

"ANXIOUS AM I TO HAVE MY ARMS FAIRLY TESTED IN THE NAVY" (INVENTORS.) SAMUEL COLT. Autograph Letter Signed, "Sam'lColt," to U.S. Navy Captain Newton, offering an additional 10% discount on the prices offered to Commander Warrington for repeating fire arms. 1 page, 4to, ruled paper; docketing verso, some chipping along side edges, horizontal folds, several words marked out with horizontal line, few holograph additions. New York, 14 December 1841

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". . . [B]y request of Com. Warrington during the late extra session of Congress, I made out a statement of the prices at which I could furnish my most improved repeating Fire Arms for ships service in various quantitiez [sic] from one hundred up to 50,000, & so anxious am I to have my arms fairly tezted [sic] in the Navy that I will even take of[f] ten per cent from the prices named in my letter to Com. Warrington, on condition that time will allow me sufficient to make a new lot possessing all my late improvements."