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Details

Object Name: revolver (set)
Maker: Colt's Manufacturing Company
Place Made: Hartford, CT
Title: Official Police Model Revolver
Date: 1959
Materials: Steel revolver with blued finish, staghorn grips; leather belt and holster, decorated
Dimensions: 44 in x 4 1/2 in (112 cm x 11.5 cm)
Credit Line: Donated by Mr. John Bromfield
Object ID: 87.79.7

Institution: Autry Museum of the American West

Category: Art and Artifacts

Remarks

Revolver with belt and holster, Colt Official Police Model, .38 special caliber, six-shot, double-action, serial number 867206, made by Colt's Manufacturing Company in Hartford, Connecticut, 1959. Heavy leather belt and holster decorated with elaborate floral design. Used by John Bromfield as Sheriff Frank Morgan in Desilu Productions Inc.'s television series Sheriff of Cochise (1956-1958).

The majority of television Westerns were set in the decades following the American Civil War, and the gun of choice was the Colt Single Action Army. In a few rare instances, the action was set in the twentieth-century West, and the actors carried more modern guns. Such was the case with John Bromfield in Sheriff of Cochise, a syndicated series set in the contemporary West that changed its name to U.S. Marshal in its second season. Bromfield played law enforcement officer Frank Morgan. The show initially depicted Morgan as the sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, but in order to allow him to work all over Arizona, he was promoted to a U.S. Marshal, hence the name change. Throughout the series, Bromfield carried a Colt double-action Official Police Model, such as this one.

Subject

Colt's Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company

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