SRS Check Please on Colt Custer?s Avengers Era SAA

[Bill in Texas]

Serial number is 17634. I believe it shipped on January 4, 1875. I was told it is recorded in Colt Cavalry & Artillery Revolvers, A Continuing Study by John A. Kopec, but I do not own the book in order to verify.

Thanks, Bill

[Johnny P]

Not in SRS. Will check Kopec when I have more time.

Serial numbers 17610 and 17749 are recorded in the index and pictured, but no 17634. Do you have information as to where is is found in Kopec?

[Bill in Texas]

Johnny P, he did not say where, specifically, only that:
"this gun is listed, by serial number 17634, in Kopec & Fenn's book "Cavalry and Artilley Revolvers, A Continuing Study" as being one of the "J" (Johnson) 1875 ordnance sub-inspected models."

I'll try to find out more from him.

[Johnny P]

Went back and looked at Chapter III which deals with serial number range 15,191 to 19,542, and found no mention of your serial number.

[Bill in Texas]

Got the information from the original source, after all. Thanks.

Chapter 2, page 43 of "Colt Cavalry and Artillery Revolvers... A Continuing Study," by Kopec and Fenn.