The Colt Colt Walker 1847 D Company Ser. 63696 is a Antique first produced in 1847. It carries a scarcity score of 99/100 based on tracked survey data, with 1 active listing currently on the secondary market and a global benchmark price of $436,639.
The Colt Walker is a massive .44-caliber single-action percussion revolver developed in 1847 through a collaboration between Samuel Colt and Captain Samuel Walker of the U.S. Mounted Rifles, designed to give mounted troops a powerful, six-shot sidearm capable of stopping a horse at range during the Mexican-American War. Colt manufactured roughly 1,100 Walkers in total, including a military order of 1,000 revolvers divided among companies lettered A through E for issue to mounted units, making it the largest-caliber and most powerful production revolver of its era. The Walker's success established Colt's reputation for large-frame revolvers and directly led to the improved Dragoon models that followed, cementing the company's place at the center of American revolver manufacturing in the mid-nineteenth century. Company-marked examples such as this one, bearing period military inspection and unit markings, represent the original military contract delivery rather than the small number of civilian and presentation variants Colt also produced.