1,500 firearms (200 on display)

Created in 1957

Hartford, CT

• Colt Company’s factory reference collection
• 1,250 guns to form the Colt Collection
•  the finest assemblages of early Colt prototypes,  factory models and experimental firearms in the world
• Colt-made Gattling guns
• the gilded rampant Colt from the Colt factory
•  Research Guide to Materials Relating to Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company

Also

• Guns produced by the twenty-six different gun makers who did business in Connecticut

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Museum of Connecticut History
Connecticut State Library
231 Capitol Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
860-757-6535

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Complements the E.H.J. Colt Firearms Collection in the Wadsworth Atheneum

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https://bennicholson.com/guns/Museum-of-Connecticut-History-Colt-Collection.html

http://museumofcthistory.org/colt-collection/