66 guns, 12 on display
Created in 1905
Hartford, Connecticut
- Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt Collection
- 1905 Samuel Colt’s wife Elizabeth Colt donated his personal gun collection and memorabilia
- Colt’s personal collection of firearms, edged weapons, and armor from around the world
- the wooden model carved by Colt aboard ship in his youth that led him to the design of the perfect revolver
- rare pre-1830 revolving guns studied by Colt
- Colt prototypes
- Fine production guns made at the Colt Factory
- Gifts from czars, princes, and sultans
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
600 Main Street
Hartford, CT 06103
(860) 278-2670
E.H.J. Colt Collection links:
Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Colt Collection
https://bennicholson.com/guns/Wadsworth-Atheneum-E-H-J-Colt-Firearms-Collection.html