Inventing America, Colt’s Experimental Pocket Pistol



Elisha King Root for Samuel Colt, Experimental Pocket Pistol, Serial number 5, caliber .265 inches, barrel length 3 inches, overall length 7 inches, brass, steel, and iron, 1849-50 (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Bequest of Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt), a Seeing America video

Speakers: Brandy S. Culp, Richard Koopman Curator of American Decorative Arts at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and Steven Zucker

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