Well, I'd have to clean 'em up & frame them and they just probably won't sell that fast.
Posted on 03/25/2014 11:17:06 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
Edited on 03/25/2014 11:36:35 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Well, I'd have to clean 'em up & frame them and they just probably won't sell that fast.
He can sell them on the Pawn Stars for $ 50.00
Ahh, you beat me to it
It is impossibile that they came from descendents of Wyatt as he had no dscendents. Glenn Boyer is also a fraud.
Wyatt Earp was Not a Gunslinger—he was a Lawman and a good Republican. He did have a long barreled Colt pistol he used more to club people over the head than shoot—He called it the Buntline Special but no evidence that Ned Buntline ever heard of it (if he had he would have used it in one of his dime novels). Now Doc Holiday—The Dentist from Hell—was a gunsinger! Only curtailed his murderious habits out of his deep friendship with Wyatt. But at OK Corral he was deputized.
Think I’m gonna have to pass. No serial number on the frame + grips and cylinder replaced..”... I mean it would go great with my official Wyatt Earp shovel. It has had the blade replaced twice, handle once, but I lost the receipt.
Wow! I wonder how they can verify that?
When my daughter lived in New Mexico, she had her property next to the Clanton’s property. She said they walked around their property shooting off their guns as a regular warning to everyone else ... :-) ...
I recall reading years ago that Wyatt Earp was carrying a S&W American .44 during the shootout, not a Colt Frontier .45.
There was an article in the “American Rifleman” a few years back about an old guy who served in the 6th Cavalry near Tombstone.
The old guy lived to over a hundred and knew Earp personally. He did not think much of him. I think he described him as a pimp who only used the badge for advantage. He also described Doc. Holliday as an insane killer.
Earp had many guns over the years of his life.
You can get $100 for them at your local gun buy back.
From what I read years ago, Buntline gave several of the lawmmen from Dodge City the long barreled pistols.
After Buntline left, the pistols were so cumbersome the men had the barrels cut down to 4 3/4 inches to make them easier to handle.
Anyone remember what Bat Masterson used to do when he left Dodge for New York? He had so many requests for one of his guns, he started buying all he could find in NY pawn shops and would give them away as the “one he used in Dodge”.
That was before the Sullivan Law went into effect.
I think the estimated bid per gun is too low for an auction of the guns of the most celebrated lawman of the Old West who participated in the most widely known gunfight.
The things you learn on FR and no where else. You gotta love this place and may it remain here when they shut the internet down, this is the only place I will miss.
Yes, I know. Most gun owners do now and did then.
The story is suspect. Rick Harrison wouldn’t touch them at any price.
The person who buys this ought to do it for the satisfaction of displaying it as Earp's gun for his and his guests' enjoyment.
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