While externally similar to a standard Colt 1860 Army cap-and-ball revolver (inset, l.), the gun being discussed is a breech-loading, .44-cal., center-fire, 1860 Army Model Richards-pattern ...

United States Colt Model 1860 Army revolver, .44 caliber. General History The Colt Model 1860 army revolver was manufactured from 1860 through 1873. The total production consisted of more than 200,000 ...

The Army purchased 128,057 of these revolvers through contracts with Colt and obtained a few thousand others through other means. So they are not rare but, nonetheless, they are still good ...

Before the Colt Single Action Army, pistols used percussion caps to ignite a powder charge that had to be hand-loaded into each chamber of the revolver's cylinder. This was a slow and cumbersome ...

Schreier estimated that a Colt Model 1860 Army Revolver in as good a condition as Ferguson's would fetch about $3,500 on a really strong day, and the box would bump it up to $4,500 or even $5,000 ...