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Auction: 312 - Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 2790

Colt´s Arms Co (NY), $1000 5% collateral trust gold bond, specimen, 1901, women as War and Peace, blue, ABN, coupons in front, soiling to reverse, otherwise EF. When Samuel Colt invented the revolver in 1830s, he revolutionized arms by vastly increasing firing rates, though his gun did not catch on for another decade; since then the Colt name has become synonymous with the revolver and with the highest quality in guns of every variety; in the year of this bond, the company he founded was sold by his heirs to a group of investors; a rare item, the only one we have seen!

Estimate
$750 to $1,000