Dance & Brothers Revolver
Dance & Brothers Revolver
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- Description
- J. H. Dance & Brothers manufactured this Colt style six-shot.44 caliber revolver in Columbia, TX. They also produced.36 caliber revolvers, but it is estimated they never produced more than 500 revolvers in total.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- revolver
- revolver, percussion
- Other Terms
- revolver; Firearms; Percussion Fire;.44 In; Rifled; Muzzle Load; 2B; Sa
- date made
- ca 1862
- maker
- J. H. Dance & Brothers
- place made
- United States: Texas
- United States: Confederate States of America
- Measurements
- overall: 5 1/2 in x 14 in x 1 1/2 in; 13.97 cm x 35.56 cm x 3.81 cm
- ID Number
- 1980.0399.0686
- accession number
- 1980.0399
- catalog number
- 1980.0399.0686
- Credit Line
- Charles Bremner Hogg Jackson
- subject
- Firearms
- Civil War
- Civil War
- See more items in
- Political and Military History: Armed Forces History, Military
- Civil War
- Military
- Revolvers
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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