Howdy,
I visited the Wells Fargo Museum in Phoenix this week and found that in their collection of Old West guns they had
two different sizes of guns labeled Colt Model 1851. In addition to two guns about the size of the Italian replicas, there were
three smaller revolvers which had the right angle where the frame joins the barrel and looked like smaller 1851's. One had been
"converted to 38". Did Colt make two sizes of 1851's or are these mislabeled pocket pistols? One of them was labeled "made in 1861, but none had the U shape where the frame joins the barrel as in the 1862 Navy. They also had a Cloverleaf Colt with
a four shot cylinder shaped like a German Iron Cross.
Regards
Colt