For sale is a Colt Detective Special revolver in .38 special. Serial number- 772806. This Detective Special is in good condition, features a nickel finish and comes with a leather holster. Has a 2" barrel, a 6 round cylinder and original wooden grips with a silver medallion. This Detective Special was manufactured in 1960 making it a Second Series model. The Second Series ran from 1947 to 1972. The grip panels were plastic in 1947, but were changed back to wood starting in 1955 (first with a silver-tone Colt medallion, and later a gold-tone). A stainless steel finish replaced the nickeled option during the Fourth Series. making the Nickel models increasingly rare. The Colt Detective Special is a six-shot, carbon steel framed, 2" barreled, double-action revolver, and the first example of a class of firearms known as "snubnose revolvers". Made by Colt's Manufacturing Company, this model revolver, as the name "Detective Special" suggests, was intended to be a concealed weapon used by plainclothes police detectives.
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Barrel Length: 2
Bore condition: Good
Year Manufactured: 1960