The accompanying Colt factory letter dated January 25, 1999, confirms configuration and shipment to Pacific Hardware and Steel Company, San Francisco, California, on March 22, 1906, just 26 days before the San Francisco earthquake tragedy! Pacific Hardware had been constructed just one year prior and was one of the few buildings to survive in the district. The features of this Colt are as follows: Blade front sight and frame notch rear sight. Two line block letter address on top of the barrel, "(BISLEY MODEL) 38 W.C.F." on the left side of the barrel and the left side of the frame is marked with the two-line, three patent dates followed by the circled Rampant Colt. The frame and hammer are casehardened, and the remaining metal surfaces are blue. Wide low hammer spur and wide trigger with characteristic "humpback" grip. Matching serial number on frame, trigger guard and backstrap, and the loading gate is marked with the assembly number "2898". The left front of the trigger guard is marked with the Colt triangle "VP" proof, and the left rear is marked with the number "5". Fitted with two piece checkered hard rubber grips with the Rampant Colt in an oval at the tops. Complete with the original maroon hinged lid box numbered to the gun with Bisley picture label and correct factory end labels. Provenance: The George S. Lewis Jr. Collection; Property of a Gentleman