Colt Third Model Dragoon Revolver
Updated: January 9th, 2013
The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art has this incredibly beautifully engraved Colt Third Model Dragoon revolver. The gun was part of three pairs created for Samuel Colt to exhibit in Europe during the Crimean war.
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[ Many thanks to Jonathan for taking the photos. ]
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The Revolver - every one a beautiful masterpiece of and tribute to Victorian design and engineering.
All those springs, cams, pins and pivots moving in orchestrated symmetry.
Poetry: standing still ... or in motion.
Thought that looked familiar, its at the MET in New York, absolutly breathtaking up close.