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