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IMPORTANT , HISTORICAL ORIGINAL COLT FACTORY DRAWING FOR THE SIGHT PATTERNS FOR ALL OF THE GATLING TYPES , HAS BEEN IN MY OFFICE FOR NEARLY 50 YEARS. UNIQUE AND ORIGINAL HAND DRAWING. LARGE. SEE YARDSTICK FOR SIZE.
INCLUDES
ONE INCH 1869 AND 1872
.75 CAL, 1869 AND 1870
.65 CAL, 1870 AND 1872
.65 CAL RUSSIAN 1871
.65 CAL ROUND SIGHTS FEB. 1872 AND MAY 1872
.58 CAL., 1872
.50 CAL., 1872
.50 CAL ROUND SIGHTS 1872
.42 CAL RUSSIAN 1872
.42 CAL 1120 YARD RANGE 1872
.42 CAL DANISH 1868
.42 CAL CAMEL GUN 1872
.42 CAL CAMEL GUN ROUND SIGHTS SHORT BARREL 1872
.42 CAL CAMEL GUN ROUND SIGHTS LONG BARREL 1872
If you are not familiar with the collection of these drawings, they were saved from destruction during WW2 when Colt decided to clear all the old paper out of their attic due to their fear of fires set by enemy agents. I had about 50 of the original drawings as well as a couple of hundred copies of production blue prints for most of the Gatling guns. Which I sold years ago. The Dauntless drawing was the only non-Gatling gun image.
Many were signed and the others initialed by the artist. The entire lot came from a life long Colt employee who was tasked with cleaning out the papers. It included full size Gatling production drawings most of which have been sold to serious Gatling collectors and writers over the past 30+ years.
I researched these years ago and found the names of most of the artists. If you are a serious scholar of such stuff you can find the info. in Colt records.
I took slides of all of the original drawings and copies and plan to have the slides converted to a CD when I get to it. Many of the best drawings were sold to a top Machine gun collector and dealer named Curtis Earl from Phoenix Az. He had a beautiful original Gatling on field carriage in his living room when I visited him in the late PO BOX 4002 COLESVILLE MD 20914.
