The earliest patent for a revolver was issued in 1818, for a flintlock revolver.
There were other patents for revolvers, but the most significant was the Colt patent, which issued in England in 1835 and in the US in 1836. The specific thing that was patented was not the revolver, but a revolver designed in such a way that the cylinder was rotated and locked by the action of cocking the hammer.
Colt Paterson, the revolver was patented by Samuel Colt on February 25, 1836 in the US.
Colt received patents on his design from England and France in 1835, and from the United States in 1836.
50-350 usd
Robert Adams (UK) patented a double action only revolver in 1851, i belive this is the first but am not an expert so someone cuold prove me wrong.
Seldom exceed 60 to 70 USD or so
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For the beginning of the Revolver used first in areas for a sidearm in hunting it eventually became the icon for wild-west movies. The first revolver was known as a wheel-lock revolver and was made in 1590 for Germany. It was later patented by Elisha Collier in Britain to be used as a common weapon for defense and flintlock like medium protection.
Samuel Colt made the first percussion cap revolver in 1836- but it was not the first. Elisha Collier made a revolving flintlock pistol in 1818- but it was not the first. James Puckle patented a revolving cannon in 1718.
10-100 USD or so
Very, very, very, very, seldom will it exceed 100 USD
A pistol is a generic term for hand gun. The revolver is older than the semi-automatic magazine fed hand gun. Revolver hand guns came into widespread use in 1836 when Samuel Colt patented his first design. The first real use of semi-automatic hand guns was in the 1890s.
The earliest example of a revolver is a revolving arquebus, produced by Hans Stopler in 1597.In regards to the modern-style hand held pistol revolver:In 1836, Samuel Colt patented a revolver mechanism that led to the widespread use of the revolver. According to Samuel Colt, he came up with the idea for the revolver while at sea, inspired by the capstan winch, which had a ratchet and pawl mechanism on it, a version of which was used in his guns to rotate the cylinder.