Exceptional 1836 Letter & Samuel Colt Signed Payment Order – One Month Before the First Colt Revolver Patent
An extraordinary autograph manuscript archive relating to Samuel Colt (1814–1862), dated January 9, 1836, written only weeks before Colt received his landmark patent for the first practical revolving pistol on February 25, 1836.
The archive consists of an autograph letter from Dudley Selden to Samuel Colt concerning the payment of a business account and authorizing Colt to issue a payment order on the reverse of the letter. Colt complied, writing and signing a payment order directing payment of $164.50 to Captain John Johnston. The endorsement is signed "Sam'l Colt."
The documents capture Colt during the formative weeks immediately preceding one of the most significant inventions in American industrial history. At the time, Colt was organizing the financial and legal affairs that would soon lead to the establishment of his first firearms enterprise. Manuscripts from this pivotal period are seldom encountered, particularly those documenting Colt's everyday business transactions immediately before issuance of his revolutionary revolver patent.
The archive remains in very good condition with expected mailing folds, light age toning, and strong legible manuscript throughout. An exceptional association piece linking Samuel Colt, attorney Dudley Selden, and the earliest days of Colt's firearms career.
An extraordinary autograph manuscript archive relating to Samuel Colt (1814–1862), dated January 9, 1836, written only weeks before Colt received his landmark patent for the first practical revolving pistol on February 25, 1836.
The archive consists of an autograph letter from Dudley Selden to Samuel Colt concerning the payment of a business account and authorizing Colt to issue a payment order on the reverse of the letter. Colt complied, writing and signing a payment order directing payment of $164.50 to Captain John Johnston. The endorsement is signed "Sam'l Colt."
The documents capture Colt during the formative weeks immediately preceding one of the most significant inventions in American industrial history. At the time, Colt was organizing the financial and legal affairs that would soon lead to the establishment of his first firearms enterprise. Manuscripts from this pivotal period are seldom encountered, particularly those documenting Colt's everyday business transactions immediately before issuance of his revolutionary revolver patent.
The archive remains in very good condition with expected mailing folds, light age toning, and strong legible manuscript throughout. An exceptional association piece linking Samuel Colt, attorney Dudley Selden, and the earliest days of Colt's firearms career.
