Colt Lightning Slide Action Carbine manufactured in 1891. This carbine was part of the famous Albert Foster collection. The carbine is listed in the James E. Serven catalog of the Foster collection published in September 1948. The carbine has the rare combination of blued barrel and magazine and nickel plated frame, hammer and buttplate. The stock and forearm are oil-finished black walnut. The forearm is checkered. The carbine has the traditional carbine barrel band, block mounted steel front sight, folding leaf rear sight, saddle ring on the left side of the frame and carbine buttplate. The top of the barrel is roll-stamped with the two-line legend: "COLT'S PT.F.A.MFG.CO.HARTFORD CT. U.S.A./PATENTED MAY 29.SEPT.18.83. MAY.26.85. JUNE 15.86.FEB.22.87." ahead of the rear sight. "44 Cal" is boldly stamped on the left side of the barrel below the rear sight. The left side of the frame is roll-stamped with the Rampant Colt trademark. The serial number, "56565", is stamped on the lower tang. Albert Foster was a Colt executive who assembled one of the most extensive collections of firearms in the United States in the years prior to WWII. Many of the firearms illustrated in the James E. Serven catalogue of the Foster Collection are still immediately recognizable as the finest examples of their type.