PRESCOTT WHITE (active 1860s 1880s) Colts Patent Fire Arms

Sale 2208 - Lot 44

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Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,200

PRESCOTT & WHITE (active 1860s-1880s)
"Colt's Patent Fire Arms Mfg. Co's Works, Hartford, Conn." Mammoth albumen print, 15x19 inches (38.1x48.3 cm.), with Prescott & White's credit, title and copyright printed on mount recto. 1869

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Acquired from Swann Galleries, New York, in 1994.
The Photograph and the American Dream 1840-1940, 87.
The Colt Manufacturing Company (formerly Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company) was founded in 1847. After decades of improvements and various models, a new pistol was introduced in 1873, which utilized ammunition more effectively. This gun was dubbed the "Peacemaker" and was often referred to as "the gun that won the West."