RICHARD J. GATLING - AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED 04/29/1878 - HFSID 265096
Price: $1,600.00
RICHARD J. GATLING
The Gatling gun inventor pens 1878 letter while partnering with Colt Firearms.
ALS: "R.J. Gatling", 1p, 4¼x7½. Hartford, Conn., 1878 April 29. To A.M. Irving, Esq. In
full: "I am in receipt of your favor of the 24th inst. and cheerfully comply with your
request." By the 1850s, Gatling had become wealthy from agricultural inventions such as
machines for sowing rice and wheat. He is best known for inventing the rapid-fire Gatling
gun, the first practical machine gun, patented in 1862. After his second patent for
improvements of the gun in 1865, he contracted its manufacture to the Colt Patent Fire Arms
Manufacturing Co. in Hartford, Connecticut. Rectangular shading at lower blank margin
(2-inches x ½-inch). Slight shading (3x3-inches) at upper left touches some text. Nailhead-size
red stain at blank upper right edge. Lightly creased, slightly soiled.
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