Opening the book…
by BRANDY CULP, WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART and DR. STEVEN ZUCKER
Elisha King Root for Samuel Colt, Experimental Pocket Pistol, Serial number 5, caliber .265 inches, barrel length 3 inches, overall length 7 inches, brass, steel, and iron, 1849-50 (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Bequest of Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt)
Additional resources:
This object at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Colt biography from Connecticut History
Museum of Connecticut History Research Guide for Colt Manufacturing
This page titled 4.9.2: Inventing America, Colt’s Experimental Pocket Pistol was last modified on Wed, 02 Nov 2022 14:32:17 GMT and is shared under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and was authored, remixed, and/or curated by Brandy Culp, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Dr. Steven Zucker, "Inventing America, Colt’s Experimental Pocket Pistol," in Smarthistory, December 23, 2018, accessed November 1, 2022, https://smarthistory.org/colts-pistol/..
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