My wife reads historical fiction.In a recent book,detailed commentary was made of the Walker Colt's cylinder engraving. I cannot find a close up picture of one. Does anyone have a close up picture? Thanks, Byron
"Master engraver Waterman Lilly Ormsby and Sam Colt met in Samuel Hall’s New
York gun store in January 1836. They formed a business association so strong that every cylinder scene to ever grace a percussion Colt was roll engraved by Ormsby. The Paterson cylinder scene depicted a centaur killing two horsemen, and the Walker and Dragoon pictured Jack Hays’ big fight. The Baby Dragoon showed a cropped version of the Ranger-Comanche battle until sometime in 1850. Then it was replaced by the engraving that would be rolled onto every ’49 Pocket: a stagecoach passenger using a Colt revolver to drive off outlaws. This was a scene Ormsby had recently experienced, and a common enough threat that stage companies’ handbills advised prospective passengers to bring a Colt revolver with them."
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