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Colt Cylinder Scenes: History or Promotion?

by | Jan 20, 2023 | Art, Guns and Culture, Shooting from the Hip

More than just decoration, these roller-die-engravings were shrewdly added by Sam Colt to his revolvers to boost sales. This Colt advertising sheet of the early 1850s shows the factory roller-die-engraved scenes used on their various percussion revolvers, along with imagery of a 1st Model Dragoon. The pictures are depicted in reverse of how they actually appear on the revolvers, as if on the engraving plate. Shown with the broadsid


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