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A Boxed Bliss & Goodyear Pocket Model Revolver, New Haven, Connecticut, Serial No. 3131, circa 1860
Estimate
5,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- Steel, Brass, Rosewood, Cow Leather
blued octagonal barrel with fore-sight, top flat stamped BLISS & GOODYEAR NEW HAVEN CT., serial number 3131 marked on underside of barrel, 6-shot cylinder, spur-trigger, case-hardened hammer and loading-lever, rosewood grips, contained within its original Bliss & Goodyear partitioned patterned-green-paste-board box and equipped with bag-shaped powder flask embossed with of stars, single-cavity ball mold (left in-the-white), the interior of the lid with Bliss & Goodyear label
3-inch barrel
William H. Bliss, inventor, manufacturing superintendent.
Frank D. Bliss, manufacturer with business partner Goodyear.
Alfred D. Goodyear (1830 - 1887), partner of Frank D. Bliss
An estimated 3,000 were produced.
3-inch barrel
William H. Bliss, inventor, manufacturing superintendent.
Frank D. Bliss, manufacturer with business partner Goodyear.
Alfred D. Goodyear (1830 - 1887), partner of Frank D. Bliss
An estimated 3,000 were produced.
Provenance
Chris Anderson
Literature
Wilson, American Arms Collectors, Percussion Colts and Their Rivals, The Al Cali Collection, page 112