Cantabria is situated on the Cantabrian coast in the north of Spain. The capital is Santander. It borders the Principado de Asturias in the west, Vizcaya in the east and Palencia and Burgos in the south. Cantabria has a population of 535,000 inhabitants and covers an area of 5,289 km2. It has a typical climate for the Atlantic coast.
A hundred âBaby Lematâs,â shortened snub-nosed revolvers in .36-caliber/18-gauge were made but these are even scarcer than the Krider guns. LeMat continued low production of various models of handguns after 1868 but they are outside the scope of this article. Very rare, engraved âbabyâ LeMat snub-nosed revolver.
Another popular handgun designed by Samuel Colt was the Colt 1851 Navy, a .36 caliber cap and ball revolver. Needless to say, weighing only 42 ounces, it was much lighter than the Walker Colt of 1847 (which had to be carried in a saddle holster).ronically, when Samuel Colt said those words almost 160 years ago, the Colt .45 Single Action Army (SAA) revolving cylinder handgun, made famous on the American frontier and the Old West as the Peacemaker, had not yet been invented.