Old Colts go for Crazy money.
Specific pieces that are “traceable”
like this one,,,
10 to 12 grand,
My estimate.
I bet this one goes for a lot more then the numbers you mentioned.
In all my years of collecting, buying, selling and just wanting...the SAA is the only gun that I've ever bought for pure speculative investment.
I've paid more than I should have, but then, the person that I sold to paid more than they should have.
The SAA is the exception to the rule, when it comes to buying and selling based on the Blue Book.
I have seen 40-60% guns go for 90% prices, simply based on a dubious "provenance", as in personally carried by Duck-Bill Hickok or Custer or some other silly shit that no one can realistically prove.
I doubt it. It does have history, but it also has a lot lined up against it. I think the auction estimate is about right. Technically, it is not even a "Colt" assembled gun, in that Colt never made it. Colt made parts but the Springfield Armory assembled, fit, and timed the parts to actually make it into a gun.