Mass production made the guns affordable. Reliability and accuracy made the Colt a favorite of soldiers and frontiersmen. The Colt depicted is a Third Model Dragoon percussion revolver (ca.

The Colt New Service was produced from 1898 to 1941 and was the first large-frame revolver made into a snub-nosed version, adopted by none other than F. Scott Fitzgerald himself.

The Colt single-action revolver belonged to Captain Myles Moylan, later a Medal of Honor recipient — and has an estimated ...