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Gold-inlaid Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver (serial no. 63306)
Manufacturer Samuel Colt (American, Hartford, Connecticut 1814–1862)
Designer cylinder ornament: Waterman Lilly Ormsby
ca. 1853
- Medium
- Steel, copper alloy, gold, wood (walnut)
- Classification
- Firearms-Pistols-Revolvers
- 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)
- Culture
- American, Hartford, Connecticut
- Museum
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Arms and Armor
- Credit line
- Gift of The Robert M. Lee Foundation, in celebration of the Museum’s 150th Anniversary, 2018
- Rights
- Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
