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MUCH MORE IN THE STORE !
IMPORTANT , HISTORICAL ORIGINAL COLT FACTORY DRAWING FOR 17 GATLING SIGHT PATTERNS. HAS BEEN IN MY OFFICE FOR over 50 YEARS. UNIQUE AND ORIGINAL HAND DRAWING. LARGE. SEE YARDSTICK FOR SIZE.
I INCH (2), .75 (2) ,.65 (2), .65 RUSSIAN (2), .58, .50, .42 RUSSIAN (2) , .42 DANISH , .42 CAMEL (3) ROUND SIGHTS,LONG BARREL , SHORT BARREL , .65 CAMEL ROUND SIGHTS
1872
If you are not
familiar with the collection of these drawings, they were saved from
destruction during WW2 when Colt decided to clear all the old paper out
of their attic due to their fear of fires set by enemy agents. I had
about 50 of the original drawings as well as a couple of hundred copies
of production blue prints for most of the Gatling guns. Which I sold years ago.
Many were signed and the others initialed by the artist. The entire lot came from a life long Colt employee who was tasked with cleaning out the papers. It included full size Gatling production drawings most of which have been sold to serious Gatling collectors and writers over the past 40+ years.
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Many of the best drawings were sold to a top Machine gun collector and
dealer named Curtis Earl from Phoenix Az. He had a beautiful original Gatling on
field carriage in his living room when I visited him in the late 1970s.
