11th October 2009, 10:46 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Austin, Texas USA
Posts: 257
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Originally Posted by Atlantia
a strange thing to dig up in the UK!...Little thing, just over 3 inches.
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Not so strange, really. That size flask was used for the .31 caliber Colt Pocket Model:
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[T]he most popular of all percussion Colts in the days of original use,...[e]nough of these arms were made from 1850 to 1873 to have been shipped all over the world: 325,000 of Hartford manufacture plus 11,000 from a factory set up in London.
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- Colt, An American Legend, R.L. Wilson.
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