![]() Up until then, it had been only practicing the so-called Richards-Mason conversions. When Rollin White’s request of extension for his breech-loading revolvers patent was rejected by the American Government in January 1870 the Colt’s Patent Fire Arms Manufacturing Company started working on its own metallic cartridge rear-loaders. ![]() 44 American to market by nearly two years. The 1858 Remington Army cartridge-conversions were the first large-caliber cartridge revolvers available, beating even Smith & Wesson’s. ![]() Remington paid a royalty fee to Smith & Wesson, owners of the Rollin White patent (#12,648, April 3, 1855) on bored-through revolver cylinders for metallic cartridge use. In 1868, Remington began offering five shot metallic cartridge conversions of the revolver in. These revolvers were manufactured to be in direct competition with the new Colt Single Action Army that was introduced in 1873. These were not optional rather, the caliber of production models was determined by their date of manufacture. Between 25,000 and 30,000 Remington revolvers were manufactured during the years 1875-1889 in three different ammunition sizes. ![]()
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