Featured Antique Colt Pistol

Wouldn't that be nice.

 

Hi, the serial number is in the photo but I cannot read it. I asked my niece to try to read it and send me the information.

 

Maybe presented with the gun a the fair? As a honorary quest/citizen? Was that not a tradition?

 

I found him to...but...

Walter Brinker graduated from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Class of 1939. He retired as a U.S. Army Major General.

 

This is all she can read. 24468..

 

The Walter E Brinker in the link was discharged in 1865.

 

C'mon bro......get with the program....!!


Originally from the estate of Amos Hart Evans (1840-1919).

you were reading this guys history.....

 

Ok bro,I will go read again and maybe even properly this time!

 

Tsk...A likely story!

 

Ok ok. Right you are,my bad!

 

I put the serial number in and it looks like this revolver was manufactured in 1874. I know from looking at the last link that komo posted that there is a way to have the Colt historian look up who the gun was sold to and when.
Yours is second on the list in the screenshot below. Year of manufacture 1874, open top pocket model .22

https://www.colt.com/serial-lookup

 

Thank You Laura

 

After searching for a while today this is what I came up with as a possibility since my nephews family is from the Rochester NY area.
GENERAL HENRY BRINKER

Major General Henry Brinker was born in Hanover, Prussia, March 17, 1831, and attended the common schools of his native province. He started from Europe for this country on February 10, 1851, and reached New York April 10, after a voyage of sixty days' duration. He began working as a clerk in a grocery, saloon and meat market, where he was employed during twenty-one months at low wages. But he saved his earnings and on January 4, 1853, when he had accumulated one hundred dollars, began business on his own account. In 1855 he engaged in ship-building and in 1859 built the steamer Henry Brinker, which he afterwards sold to the United States government, and which did good service during the war. While he was a resident of New York he established business relations with Utica, Rome, Fairport, Pittsford, Rochester, Spencerport and Medina, aud carried on extensive transactions in produce. It was in New York city that he acquired his title of General, having enlisted in the Third Cavalry V. G. S. N. Y. in 1855 and advanced through all the minor grades. General Brinker is interested in ten railroads. He started the Germania Fire Insurance company of New York and has been a director of the Sun, St. Nicholas, and Amsterdam fire insurance companies. He also started the Rochester German Insurance company of this city and was for a long time one of its directors. He has been president, vice-president and director in over forty corporations. General Brinker moved to this city in 1871, and in 1877 had command of the militia at the Hornellsville strike. He has visited every country in the world excepting China and Australia and intends to see those lands also. In 1868 he made a visit to Emperor William of Prussia and was for six weeks a special officer on the staff of General Von Fogtzate, in which capacity he was present at several great inspections. General Brinker was married February 2, 1863, to Annie M. Bruns of New York.

 

Confirmation that Brinker was in the Rochester NY area (this was from a 25 Dec 1874 Rochester newspaper):

 

At St. Bridget's Fair! Though two years before the gun is presented.

 

@ulilwitch What is the picture supposed to be? All I see is the Red X pizza box.

 

I think the date on the gun is Jan 1875. If correct, then just a month.

 

Year of manufacture 1874,

that fits nicely.........new gun !!

 

It was a photo of General Brinker that came with the article.

 

@ulilwitch
There's a great biography of Henry Brinker on Wikipedia in the write-up regarding the Civil War ship he built and sold to the government.
I haven't even finished reading it yet I wanted to come here quick and post it right away, lol.
USS HENRY BRINKER 1861
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Henry_Brinker_(1861)