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Personal Items of Sheriff Daniel Nottage, Wyoming Territory

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Historical Memorabilia Start Price:100.00 USD Estimated At:30,000.00 - 40,000.00 USD
Personal Items of Sheriff Daniel Nottage, Wyoming Territory
Nottage was Sheriff of Albany County – Laramie City, Wyoming Territory. This lot features his personal Colt Richards Conversion with it’s original deep carved slim jim holster carried and used as Sheriff.
A family photograph album including a circa 1877 CDV of Daniel, cdv’s and cabinet cards of family, his passes for Union Pacific Railroad as Sheriff, calling cards for jobs as assistant superintendent, Laramie Division, St Louis, Arkansas & Texas R’y, Jonesboro, Ark, also Lost Car Agent for St Louis, Southwestern R’y Co. Texarkana, Texas and many other pieces of family history.
Daniel’s own leather bound copy of “The Compiled Laws of Wyoming” 1876. The covers have separated from the binding.
The family scrapbook consisting of:
A panaramic view of Laramie, 1870, numerous newspaper clippings, a form from the Great Northern Railway certifying that Daniel Nottage was promoted from porter to mineral guard (1861) King’s Cross, London.
A great piece of blank stationery dated 1877 for Office of Sheriff and Collector, Albany County, Wyoming Territory, D. Nottage, Sheriff and Collector, Laramie City, Wyoming.
The pistol is a Colt Richards Conversion Model revolver, .44 Colt caliber, with factory conversion done under the C. B. Richards patent no. 117461, issued July 25, 1871, for the altering of the Colt percussion cap revolvers to use the flanged metallic self exploding cartridges. The pistol, serial number 190537, has about 30% bright blue finish remaining on the barrel and lug, a nice amount of varnish on the original one piece grips, sharp clear marking thoughout except on the butt which appears to have been used as a hammer at times.
The holster is left handed and correct for the time and in the styling of early California type holsters. Some of the finish has flaked off but the leather is still soft and pliable.
Included is a copy of “Wyoming’s Territorial Sheriffs” by Ann Gorzalka. Includes a very interesting chapter on Daniel.

Provenance: Letters from Carolyn Nottage Dorr Teagle / Family Lineage and History of Inheritance. Daniel Nottage to Mildred Nottage to Annabelle Nottage to her niece Carolyn.