A cap and ball percussion sidearm, this specimen is a complete Civil War Colt Model 1860 Army revolver in original condition. In production from 1860 through 1873, these handguns were the successor to the Colt Third Model Dragoon pistols. This version of the Model 1860 Colt has a fluted cylinder and is one of an estimated 4000 produced.

This revolver is a .44 caliber, four-screw model with a 6-shot fluted cylinder and a 7 ½” long barrel. Clean bore with good rifling. Grips are original one-piece walnut in very good condition; no bad dings or chips. Some wear to the outside, bottom edges of grips. No cartouches. The revolver does show use in the form of some dings and scratches along the barrel and on the frame. Revolver has a nice low serial number of #824 on the barrel, frame, trigger guard, butt strap, and cylinder. The wedge, which is cracked, is stamped with the #455. Serial number dates the manufacture in the early portion of 1860.

Sidearm is equipped with recoil shield cutouts on the frame and the small notch on the base of the butt plate. Mechanics are perfect. Barrel address is worn but reads “ADDRESS COL. SAML COLT HARTFORD, CT”. Fluted cylinders never had any scene rolled onto them, but stamped within one of the flutes is the serial number and in another “PATENTED SEPT. 10^th, 1850”. Mechanics are crisp and strong. The “COLTS / PATENT” mark on the left side of the frame is worn but very readable. All nipples original and in fine condition. All cylinder safeties hammered down. Screw heads are in overall good condition with a few showing some wear. Brass trigger guard retains about 50% silver plating. Iron backstrap was also plated and retains 85% silver there. Backstrap engraved, “Jas. A. Lowrie, Pittsburgh, Pa.”

James Anderson Lowrie was born in 1833.  On the 1860 census he is listed as a lawyer in Pittsburgh. He enlisted in Co. C, 13^th Pennsylvania Infantry on April 25, 1861. Mustered out on August 6, 1861, at Pittsburgh, PA.  Lowrie was commissioned a captain in the Adjutant Generals Department on October 7, 1861.  He was promoted to Major on March 13, 1863. James Lowrie resigned his commission October 12, 1864.

This is a rare version of the famous Colt Model 1860 Army revolver carried by an officer from Pittsburgh, PA.  [jet]

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