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Very nice. An 1851 Navy .36? Or is that a Dragoon .44? With the trigger guard squared, it must be a Dragoon.

Colt 2nd gen 1851 .36 Navy. I have two...one cased, one without. Both unfired. Colt made both round and squared guards for the '51 2nd gen.
Bob

Here is an original manufactured in 1852 and sporting the other (round) trigger guard. My wife's re-issue OTOH, has the squareback.

Wow! An original. Cool.

PS one cool thing about my screw barrel pistol is that the trigger folds into a recess in the frame when the hammer isn’t fully cocked, and then pops out when cocked.

It was in excellent shape mechanically with only traces of blue left but definite traces of silver on the brass grip frame. Additionally, it had a full cylinder scene-leaving a lot of experts saying the cylinder had been replaced, but IIRC, the cylinder was numbered to the gun. It supposedly came from a Fort Scott, Kansas family, right on the border with Missouri, and had been used by a "Jayhawker" in the Bleeding Kansas conflict (1855-1858). I could never get documentation on this even though the dealer I bought it from said he'd help. I finally got tired of it and considered it just another "story gun" though it had some other cool aspects. It went in some trade.

For the distances it would be used at I imagine that 600 FPS from a 44 or 45 would be deadly.
Jammed into the ribs of an assailant might result in Barbequed ribs !

Nice Gear

Thank you.