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Encouraged by an ongoing military contract, Colt turned his eye toward the civilian marketin 1848. Civilian pocket revolvers, such as the Wells Fargo or 1849 Pocket, were .31 caliber pistols that fit easily in a coat pocket. Just as silver spring steel allowed Colt to adapt a .44 cylinder to a .36 frame, it permitted the .31 cal. 1849 Pocket revolver to be upgraded to a .36 cal. The 1862 Pocket Navy retains the octagon barrel and hinged loading lever of the 1851 Navy, while the 1862 Police model is a miniature of the 1860 Army, with fluted cylinder, streamlined round barrel and “creeping” loading lever. The Pocket and Police were the last two muzzle loading models to be produced by Colt and together they totalled approximately 47,000. About 19,000 were the model 1862 Pocket Navy.

ABOUT UBERTI

Giacomo Merlino, President of A.Uberti S.p.A., oversees the exacting recreationof the numerous historic firearms manufactured by Uberti in Gardone Val Trompia, Italy.

Using superior quality forged steel, state-of-the-art technology and high precision machine tools, combined with the centuries-old skills of polishers, engravers and stockers, A. Uberti is able to create historical firearms with the same loving care with which the originals were crafted all those centuries ago. In the Beretta Group since the year 2000, the Company moved into a brand new ultra modern building in the year 2002 with all the up-to-date facilities and excellent environmental conditions for its workers. High tech machinery was also introduced on a large scale. We are proud to claim that ardent collectors and demanding shooters from all over the world find that our guns reproduce not only the same shapes and mechanical and ballistic features, enhanced by modern production methods, but also in the same spirit of those guns that have occupied pages and pages of history in the course of the century.