Manufactured in 1890. Folding Beach combination front sight with sporting rear sight as well as a tang mounted folding rear peep sight. Standard later two-line Colt address and caliber marking on the barrel with rampant colt on the left side of the receiver. These rifles were a well liked alternative to the Winchester offerings of the day, however, even with some 186,000 having been produced, Colt decided to drop the line 1904 and return solely to handgun manufacturing.

Fine, retaining 75% original blue on the barrel, magazine, trigger guard, and frame, mottled brown coloration to the refinished non-factory replacement top cover, and extensive patches of pitting visible on magazine tube which has been touched up with cold blue. Non-factory added filler screws visible on both sides of upper center frame. The wood is very good with some dings and scratches and crisp checkering on the forend. Mechanically excellent.