Colt presentations from the factory ledgers 1856-1869 by Herbert Houze, Samuel Colt was a generous man.
He also used gifts to influence govermment decision makers.
But after congress investigated him in 1854, Colt needed to hide his gifts from prying eyes, which makes it very difficult for todays collectors to document the many revolvers presented by Colt patent fire arms manufacturing co. renowned arms authority Herbert Houze shows us the various creative accounting methodes that Colt used to disguise the gifts 112 pages softcover