Posted on 04/10/2017 12:28:35 AM PDT by Swordmaker
COLT SINGLE ACTION ARMY SN 5773 POSITIVELY PROVEN TO HAVE BEEN USED BY ONE OF CUSTER'S MEN DURING THE INFAMOUS BATTLE OF THE LITTLE BIGHORN.
Estimate: $175,000 - $275,000
(Excerpt) Read more at auctionzip.com ...
Opening bid is a mere $90,000. . .
There’s a lot of antique gun porn at this auction. . . Closing on April 11th. Apparently some of the most famous large collections of the last 50 years are being broken up and AuctionEd off, including many of the finest pristine engraved Colts and Winchesters that were featured in the collector’s books. Many are in this auction. . . DROOL!
Looking at the description it talks about a “John Kopec”. I expected that to be the name of the soldier - but the web indicates that he is the expert that authenticates firearms. So I suppose that SN was in a lot destined to Custer’s men?
How can he have used it positively if he’s deader n’ a door nail?
Amazing piece. I own one exactly like that, except it is a 5 digit serial. The action on mine is like butter. Just a couple years shy of one hundred.
One just like this was brought into my shop in the mid 1970s by a little old lady who had it in a sock, except hers was a black powder model. She said "This was my Daddy's gun and I've kept it and oiled every month since Daddy died, but now I'm afraid it's going to shoot me, so I've decided to sell it!"
There a a lot more authentic Confederate revolvers and long guns at auction for you Southern, politically incorrect collectors, but bring lots of money!
Back when I collected Colt percussion revolvers, I picked up a near mint 1872 factory made Richards conversion .44 cenerfire version of the 1860 Army in Nickel plate. It had the original gunslingers holster and a sealed box of Colt .44 Center Fire ammunition with it. It, too, was a smooth as butter. Damn, but it was a gorgeous gun. The nickel was as bright and polished as the day it was made. I got it exactly 100 years to the month after it left the Colt factory!
I traded it away for an absolutely mint condition unfired 1873 Winchester Musket and bayonet, which still had the cleaning rods wrapped in the factory brown paper in the stock, and the factory shipping grease on the gun! I wish I had kept both.
Georg Luger worked for Bouchard and took what he learned there and a few years later developed the iconic Luger pistol. . . still a weak and finicky work of art, but robust enough for military use all the way through the 1950s.
The Army tried to “save money” by continuing to use Civil war single shot muskets (converted many times to breech) ... The Indians bought repeating “civilian” rifles and were often better armed than the cavalry.
US Army riles were very bad, very poorly built and managed up to and through the Spanish American war, until Springfield “copied” (er, stole) the German design to make the 1903A3 and its family of bolt-action rifles.
Beautiful.
Just gave away a 41 Long Colt SA 4" barrel to a kid that I raised. It was the first pistol my ggrandfather purchased when he hit the shores of FREEDOM. It was a brass black powder load that got converted to smokeless round. 250 grain lead bullet.
I used to carry it a horse when working cows when I was only 8 years old.
Beauteous objects within thread.
Luger was brought in because Bouchard couldn’t be convinced improvements could be made...
An example from the Bizzaro World Collection. I’m surprised it doesn’t shoot backwards.
I saw the most incredible antique firearms from the 17th, 18th, and 19th century - "deactivated" so as to comply with harsh gun control laws.
It was heartbreaking.
For sale would be something like these antique dueling pistols, and they would have a 1/4" or 1/2" hole drilled into them in front of the cocking lever with a rod of steel welded into the frame.
Unbelievable.
WOW!
From what I have read, the gun was issued to company M, which fought with Reno at the Little Big Horn.
Excellent Dueling Pistols.
They might be making a come back.
Oregon May Ditch Its 172-Year-Old Ban on Dueling
http://www.newser.com/story/241037/oregon-may-ditch-its-172-year-old-ban-on-dueling.html
bang
Wow, those sound like awesome firearms. i love those old cowboy stile weapons. My father (small time gunsmith) gave me my colt as he was dying of cancer, he made the walnut one piece grips on mine. It is 1919 manufacture, it is a shooter. I also have a 5 digit serial 1873 saddle ring carbine that he engraved on some. Priceless firearms to me. He passed in 1996. I really miss the old boy.
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