Paterson Pocket Revolver

[bezoar]

Found a reference to a pocket revolver variation of the paterson revolvers. I do remember seeing an advertisement for a commercially made cut down paterson with a spur trigger on it. Any one have any ideas?
And would this have been the pistol using the .285 round ball load ive seen copied from old records online?

 

[mec]

there were "baby" patersons in 28 and 31 calibers

 

[Doc Arroyo]

I saw a cased Paterson at the Autry Museum a number of years ago. The .36 Paterson was cased with 4", 9" and a 12" target barrel. Right next to it was a .28 Baby Paterson in it's own case. If wishes were horses....

Here is a photo of a "Baby" with a bunch of his big brothers.

 

[bezoar]

redefines the term "pocket pistol". Haps the reason so few survived till today is that they simply fell out through the proverbially hole in the pocket.

 

[Light Dragoon]

Colt indeed made the "Baby Patersons" in .28, and even after the Patent Firearms Company folded, the treasurer of the company, one John Ehlers (who kept all of the remaining stock), continued to sell them throughout the 1840's. He had the "Baby's" otherwise known as the "No.1 Pocket Pistol" refurbished to include an under-the-barrel rammer too, as he did with the No.2 & No.3, which were the .32 "Belt Pistols" BTW, the big "Texas Paterson" ("big" being subjective here, they were the .36" models) was the "No.5 Holster Pistol" according to Colt's advertising catalogue.

Cheers!

Gordon