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  • Lot #3218
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Lot 3218: Selection of Colt Advertisements and Related Material

Auction Location: Rock Island, IL

Auction Date: December 11, 2022

Lot 3218: Selection of Colt Advertisements and Related Material

Auction Location: Rock Island, IL

Auction Date: December 11, 2022

Estimated Price: $2,000 - $3,000
Price Realized:
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Selection of Colt Advertisements and Related Material

Manufacturer: None
Model: None
Type: Other
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Item Views: 835
Item Interest: Average
Catalog Page: 156
Class: Other
Description:

One item is a copy of "Great Metropolis" guide for New York from 1846 which includes a full-page advertisement on page 159 for "Colt's Repeating Pistols, With the latest Improvements of 1844 and 1845." The advertisement lists John Ehlers at No. 2 Barclay St., Astor House, New York. Other pierce include a business card for Frank D. Popowics of Colt's Chicago office, a Nov. 1907 price list for revolvers and pistols, a business card for Ralph C. Kingsbury of Colt's Sales Department in Hartford, a 11935 publication on the "Strike Against Colt's Patent Firearms Manufacturing Company, a "1905 Component Parts" list for Colt rifles and revolvers, a blank 1880s Colt receipt, prints of Colt revolvers, "The Pioneers of Civilization. Colt's Revolving breech Firearms" flier (reproduction from 1960), two "Centennial Campaign" fliers, an advertisement for "Colt's New Model Army Metallic Cartridge Revolving Pistol," "The Assembler's Problems- Gremlins!" drawing of a 1911 by Bill Powers, "Directions for Loading and Managing Colt's Pistols," "Colt's Patent Repeating Pistols, Army, Navy and Pocket Sizes" (one older and one marked as a 1960 Ray Riling Research reproduction), another advertisement on the same page as a Frederick Miller advertisement, a sample of an Officer's Model advertisement, and an Art Department proposal for a Match Target advertisement.

Rating Definition:

Generally very good or better overall with minor age and storage related wear.



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