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Colt 1862 Police/Sioux Holster .36 Cal.

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Colt 1862 Police/Sioux Holster .36 Cal.
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SN: 33360. Post Civil War era revolver manufactured 1866. Blue finish with case hardened frame, 4.5' round barrel, half fluted cylinder, brass triggerguard and backstrap, one line Address on barrel, 'Colts Patent" on left frame and '36 Cal' on left triggerguard. All matching serial numbers, the wedge is unmarked. Marking are feint but mostly readable. Hammer action is very stiff, cocks but the cylinder does not rotate, the finish has turned a brown/gray patina, there are tool marks on the backstrap and there is a 1 1/2" crack on the top barrel where it meets the cylinder. (Someone put too much powder in) Grips are very good, have been varnished. The wedge screw and one of the frame screws appear to be later replacements. Revolver has seen very hard use, which indicates possible native American usage. Comes with a beautiful vintage fringed Sioux beaded holster and belt. It features a fully-beaded front with sinew-sewn Venetian glass beads on smoke tanned elk hide with evidence of scraping. This style of beadwork is called Paha stitch or Hill stitch- formerly called lazy stitch. The designs used by the Plains Indian tribes were multicolored geometric, that is, they were made up of squares, triangles and other straight-sided figures. the designs are triangles built up of a number of small squares in a triangle shape often is interpreted as a hill. Nearly all of the Lakota (Sioux) designs are done on a white back-ground. Very good condition, bead work is intact.
Condition-Relic. Antique Firearm.