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Samuel Colt autograph letter signed as president of Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, the company that pioneered the mass-production of revolvers. Letter appears in the center of a handwritten invoice from the Hartford and New Haven Rail Road Co., and reads in full: ''Sir / Your favour of the 29 April is received and agreeable to your request we make out a bill of the rail road ties and the barrer of this Samuel H Colt the youngest partner of our firm is autherised [sic] to sine [sic] receipt in full / Yours respectfully, Samuel Colt & Son''. Document runs 2pp. on a sheet of card-style stationery. Measures 7.5'' x 9.25''. Colt adds a notation to verso alongside other signatures and ink notations. Ink blot to verso, pinhole separation to fold intersections and pencil notation to lower edge of first page. Very good. With JSA COA.
Autograph Letter Signed by Samuel Colt, Founder of Colt's Fire-Arms Company -- The Company That Brought the Revolver to the Masses -- With JSA COA
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