Loaded 1860 Army relic on GB

[twaits]

I'm always fascinated by loaded relic guns like this. Looks like the hammer is properly down between chambers as well.

colt 1860 army fully loaded : Muzzleloading Collectibles at GunBroker.com

[MtnSpur]

Interesting relic but I can't see the value. I reckon I prefer ones that function and aren't meant for paperweights.

[charles isaac]

Loaded with conicals too. I always feel sadness for whoever was carrying these relics when I see them because I know they probably met their demise. Same for the musket locks that are still cocked.

Saw a relic Navy Colt in Reno NV. for for sale that had 3 chambers still loaded.

[PonyLover]

My brother found a Colt SAA in such a condition when he went to exterminate a house. It was hanging by a nail outside the back door. He traded a yard spraying for it and later sold it for $500 to a guy who made shadow boxes for executive offices. Go figure....

I saw a gun with some history at the Tulsa show a few years ago. It was frozen at full cock with three chambers loaded. From the rust patterns, the owner must have left some blood on it before dying. The guy dug it up on one of the "trails" up there. He also had a pair of Colt Bisley 7 1/2 barrels that he said he found within a hundred yards of each other on the trail. He couldn't figure out how that happened. I told him if he went on down the trail he would have found the bones or a grave. The rider probably bucked off and hung up; losing one gun at a time while being drug. Not my idea of a good ending. Elmer Keith said he prevented this from happening by shooting a horse he was "riding." I'll bet that was some wreck when it stopped moving.

[what would you say]

My brother found a Colt SAA in such a condition when he went to exterminate a house. It was hanging by a nail outside the back door. He traded a yard spraying for it and later sold it for $500 to a guy who made shadow boxes for executive offices. Go figure....

I saw a gun with some history at the Tulsa show a few years ago. It was frozen at full cock with three chambers loaded. From the rust patterns, the owner must have left some blood on it before dying. The guy dug it up on one of the "trails" up there. He also had a pair of Colt Bisley 7 1/2 barrels that he said he found within a hundred yards of each other on the trail. He couldn't figure out how that happened. I told him if he went on down the trail he would have found the bones or a grave. The rider probably bucked off and hung up; losing one gun at a time while being drug. Not my idea of a good ending. Elmer Keith said he prevented this from happening by shooting a horse he was "riding." I'll bet that was some wreck when it stopped moving.

Got to hate it when the throttle sticks open .

[coltsixguns]

That's a neat display piece but I think $300 to $400 will kill it stone dead as far as marketablility.

[feralmerril]

This just go`s to show what I have seen and said before. We always hear like it was engraved in stone how the old timers ALWAYS carried the top chamber unloaded. Well, no doubt they should have, however I call BS! Through my 70 years I have noticed most times that relics that are found loaded, far more often than not they are fully loaded!

[twaits]

Weren't the old BP Colt's intended to be carried with 6 rounds? Don't they all have safety pins between the chambers that fit into the notch in the hammer face? Often these pins are bashed in on old original guns though.

[DuWhat]

Some models did have the safety pins. That Colt has been for sale several times on GB and never gets a bid. We have a guy here in Albq who deals in nothing but relics. Man does he have some good stories that I'm sure he makes up on the spot.

[Texas Man]

I have always found dug ups to be interesting. I have thought about collecting them for a long time. Whats so intersting is that you know there is a story behind them but what that is will never be known. There are a few Pattersons and Walkers that have be dug up and I know of one Texas Patterson from Harper Texas that turned up years ago and I tried to buy it.

As an advanced collector, I have come to find I valve a gun that has been used and shows use over a gun that just set in a safe or drawer and never was used. Looking at a muzzle that has wear to one side tells me how the gun was carried and smooth grips tell the story of long use as a lawman or outlaw. Blood intiching always is intersting as how it got there and on long guns repairs show it was used hard. Indian owned guns have so much history that is untold with them.

Last year I missed a chance to buy a Bervette Dragoon that was found in a cave with the bones of its owner. I regret not spending the $275.00 to but it. I once found the remains of a Henry Rifle and the bones of the Mexican who died with it and the silver belt buckle and silver hat buttons and in the sand was a few very old Mexican coins and part of an old Indian arrow laying in the bones. At the time bullets were flying all around Me and later I tried to go back and pick up a few things but I never could find the place and also I only had a short time because I knew more Mexicans would soon be coming like flys and the River was still some distance away.

Texas Man