Dealer Clapp & Treat (Hartford CT)

[J.B. Books]

Originally Posted by Dave Suponski

Ah yes..The blue onion dome and the rampant colt. I love that old building. I convinced I was born 100 years too late.

Dave, anyone who enjoys nice firearms, lots of open land and plenty of game was born 100 years too late.

[Autumn Daze]

Got that right Pete...Sorry to say..

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

Colt in Hartford is nothing but a highly valuable trade name.
What is under the Blue Onion Dome ( a gift from a Tsar I believe) has nothing to do with guns. The original Rampant Colt was sold to a speculator group, but may have been bought back by the state and is now in the CT Museum in the Supreme Court building.
That museum is worth a trip, in my opinion.

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

that pony is fiberglas I believe.

[edgarspencer]

At one point Larry Wilson claimed to own the original Colt, but I believe it came back to the state. More than I can say for some of the fine Colts that he 'borrowed' from the state library.

[George M. Purtill Member #28]

what a scandal
sold right out of the state library

[Autumn Daze]

I remember reading somewhere that the "Rampant Colt" was brought back and restored and is now back in its original location atop the factory building. Am I wrong in this? Don't know....