Fall 2025 Premier Firearms & Militaria Auction
Auction Concluded!
EXTREMELY RARE CASED SAMUEL P. COLT PRESENTATION COLT 1877 LIGHTNING SHERIFF’S MODEL REVOLVER
01-28158 | Cal. 38 | S# 22070.
Fancy leather covered blue silk & velvet lined hinged casing houses presentation revolver finely inscribed on backstrap: “Patrick Parker. Esq. / with compliments of / Sam’l P. Colt. Jany. 1st 1880. Standard configuration, nickel, 3.5″ barrel, 2-line Hartford address, etched panel “COLT D.A. 38”, 3-line patent, mounted with checkered 1-pc rosewood grip. Blued screws, hammer & knurled cylinder pin. Revolver is pictured & described in “FINE COLTS FROM JOSEPH MURPHY COLLECTION” pages 162-163. Samuel Pomeroy Colt (1852-1921) was Col. Colt’s nephew and Colt Company trustee. UNATTACHED ACCESSORIES: pertinent pages from Joseph Murphy text, brass Murphy collection tag. PROVENANCE: Dr. Joseph A. Murphy Collection, James Julia Auction, Martin Lane collection. STATUS: ANTIQUE.
