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Auction: 313 - Numismatic Collector's Series - Ft. Worth, TX
Lot: 1790

Pettengill Telegraph Revolver Co (CT), $100 shares, capital stock, 185(8), #230, issued to and signed on recto transfer stub by C.S. Pettengill, Pettengill revolver at top, blacksmith rests on anvil at left, wear at bottom edge, but still about EF. The Pettengill revolver had a concealed hammer that was cocked automatically when the trigger was squeezed. Though the Army used them during the early days of the Civil War, they were soon replaced by simpler single-action revolvers.

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