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Reply With QuoteAnytime you can keep the originality to these classics you are better off and it always helps the value. NOW finding the originals sights, that might be a challenge.
Here's what your original sights should look like:
I've purchased a colt lightning, 32cal ser# 15,XXX. I'm pretty sure the sights are not original but everything else looks good. With this being an early production haveing the locking slide, does this raise the value any and should I try to fined original sights for it?
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Anytime you can keep the originality to these classics you are better off and it always helps the value. NOW finding the originals sights, that might be a challenge.
Here's what your original sights should look like:
Last edited by Kid Sopris; 12-31-2011 at 04:02 AM.
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What raises the value also is the fact that your has the Rampant Colt on the side. A lot of these guns have that worn off. I find these lightnings are kind of like trapdoor springfields...the first thing I and most collectors do is turn the gun to the left side and look for inspectors cartouches (springfields) or the rampant colt (lightnings). If it is missing, I pass since I know I will have a hard time reselling the gun later to another collector (ask me how I learned this!). Yours looks really nice. I am no expert but it seems to me that the locking slide present or absent is not a matter unless it was SUPPOSED to be locking and the assembly is missing. Being an early gun your is supposed to have it, and it does. Looks like a keeper to me.
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Thanks for the info!!
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