Is there a book on Colts that....

[Andy Griffith]

is the equivalent to the SCSW?
Including, but not limited to: "rough values," production figures, production dates, boxes, grips, backstory of models, special runs, etc?


I took a look at the Standard Catalog of Colt yesterday evening and was gravely disappointed. Rick Sapp did a terrible job compared to the job done by Supica and others on the SCSW! There wasn't any pertinent information- some pictures, but nothing like I thought there should be for a brand that...everyone has been collecting since before they were collectible. For so many people to "collect" Colts, there are very little reference works on items besides 1911's and Frontier Six-shooters. I did not buy it at Barnes & Noble after looking through it.

I'm feeling disenfranchised, marginalized, homogenized and generally melancholy about the whole idea.

"...and if I get melancholy, which can happen, I expect you to be my companion and solace me.”
-Ben Rumson, Paint Your Wagon

 

[Andy Griffith]

is the equivalent to the SCSW?
Including, but not limited to: "rough values," production figures, production dates, boxes, grips, backstory of models, special runs, etc?


I took a look at the Standard Catalog of Colt yesterday evening and was gravely disappointed. Rick Sapp did a terrible job compared to the job done by Supica and others on the SCSW! There wasn't any pertinent information- some pictures, but nothing like I thought there should be for a brand that...everyone has been collecting since before they were collectible. For so many people to "collect" Colts, there are very little reference works on items besides 1911's and Frontier Six-shooters. I did not buy it at Barnes & Noble after looking through it.

I'm feeling disenfranchised, marginalized, homogenized and generally melancholy about the whole idea.

"...and if I get melancholy, which can happen, I expect you to be my companion and solace me.”
-Ben Rumson, Paint Your Wagon

 

[Kapp]

I got a Colt book as a birthday present a few years ago, but I can't remember the name of it right now. Don't think it's an official history, but I'll check when I get home.

Kapp

 

[n4zov]

While the Standard Catalog of Colt is far from perfect, it is at least a start! I am hopeful that Sapp will make the necessary corrections and come out with a greatly improved edition. Like you, I do not understand why there is so little in the way of a general reference for Colts.

 

[cmort666]

Originally posted by Andy Griffith:
is the equivalent to the SCSW?
Including, but not limited to: "rough values," production figures, production dates, boxes, grips, backstory of models, special runs, etc?

I've got the Serven book, which is more of a history with a lot of pictures, rather than an exhaustive catalog. I got it when I was a kid, in fact at the now defunct Kroch's & Brentano's, the day I went to see "Magnum Force" in downtown Chicago with my mother!

 

[RGAmos]

You will not find an adequate treatment in any one book.
For 1st gen SAA see Graham/Kopec/Moore along with Kopec/Fenn.
For 2nd & 3rd gen SAA see Wilkerson.
For the Gvt Mdl see Brady, Goddard, and Clawson.
Some of these are rather pricey.

 

[Texas Star]

Haven & Belden's A History of the Colt Revolver from 1836-1940 has been widely available as a reprint and will give you the basics through 1940.

 

[haggis]

"A Study of Colt's New Army and Navy Pattern Double Action Revolvers, 1889 to 1908", by Robert Best, is an excellent work on Colt's early swing-out cylinder revolvers.

Bob Murphy's monograph on "Colt New Service Revolvers" is about the only comprehensive book on these guns.

Buck

 

[Stonecove]

You might look at Colt & it's Collectors, by the Colt Collectors Association.It has pictures of every type of colt ever made. Not as good as 3rd addition S&W book, but the most thorough Colt book out there.
Stonecove

 

[BADSBSNF811]

The Book of Colt Firearms by R.L. Wilson is worth having in addition to others mentioned.

 

[rimfired]

Yep, All the above reply's.
Colts each have a niche.
I agree the recent SCCF is a regurgitation.
Who has the deep pockets to publish a true compendium?