COLT FACTORY BARREL ERROR…MID-40,000 RANGE ONLY !! VERY UNIQUE !! COLT SINGLE ACTION ARMY .45, 1879 //FACTORY LETTER, EXOTIC SHIP LOCATION, MEXICO

This is one of the very few factory acknowledged errors in production. This is only found in the mid 40,000 range, and a limited number of about 2,000 before the error was discovered. This is one of them ! WHAT IS THE ERROR ? it is a reverse barrel address roll, reading from frame to muzzle ! just the opposite direction of standard.
Serial No. 44,06X was shipped in November of 1879 to Wexell & DeGress, Mexico City, one of 50. It might be interesting to note: that as shown in the Reference Text by Chris Hirsch, Texas Gun Makers, W&D maintained a few satellite stores on the Border. Locations like Laredo, and Brownsville. The Factory Letter matches the revolver excluding one aspect, the barrel is now 5-1/4 inch, and done “in the day”. Listed as blue, Walnut etc…. Much of the blue remains on the cylinder, the frame has a silvered gray patina, and the revolver has an overall gray patina with some traces of plum peeking through. The working mechanical action is PERFECT. ALL notches, it locks tight, indexes, and releases to fire perfectly, NO mechanical issues. ALL Factory applied markings are present, barrel address, frame patents, etc……
Certainly this Black Powder Single Action .45 served on the Border, either the Mexican side or the Texas Frontier side in hard and fast days of the 1870’s and forward.