![]() This Second Generation Colt 1851 Navy Square-back Trigger Guard that was produced by Colt and is identical in every respect to the original First Generation gun. Colt could never have brought back the 1851 Navy had it not been for Forgett, Uberti. ![]() They chose the Colt 1851 Navy as the first percussion revolver to be reproduced in Italy in 1958.Īfter a dozen years and thousands of Colt reproductions, the success of the Italian-made '51 Navy - which Aldo Uberti frequently supplied to filmmaker Sergio Lione and Clint Eastwood for early spaghetti westerns - had finally come to the attention of the company that invented it. ![]() The tale of the 2nd Generation Colt black powder line actually began in the late 1950s with Val Forgett, founder of Navy Arms, and Italian gunmakers Vittorio Gregorelli and Aldo Uberti. ![]()
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