A really quick search on the internet reveals that there is a David P Davison listed in the 1940 Census. He was born in Nebraska in 1907 and resided in Wilson, Owyhee, Idaho in 1940. Of course, he could have been in Idaho 9 yrs previously in 1931.
Indeed, he had a 9 yr old son in 1940 and a 24 year old wife. Maybe both married young and he settled there in 1931 and purchased a used SAA revolver as he started a family there.
Nice work mrcvs!Wilson in Owyhee Co, Idaho is just a few miles from me. Your gun and your story but by the look or those grips David's would be mine
I paid a bit more than 3000 Dollars for it... that is too much for a late 1st Generation SAA with very little blue left. I did not inspect it but bought at the auction from rather bad pictures... that was stupid. But I learned the hard way. It will not happen again.
Peter
That may be top-dollar but the colors do look nice and the gun looks right except for an altered front sight.
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Kind words, Rick..but you would not have done it...1800 would have been enough 10 years ago.The front sight was a bit improved and is really nice to take aim.
I think someone used to shoot this revolver a lot. You can see a loss of blue inside the triggerguard from the moving trigger-finger. And it was no real "cowboy colt" as those show marks on the butt and here are none. People used them as hammers and alle my old SAAs that are not above 80% blue have those marks.
Peter
You never pay to much for a gun, but you may have just bought it to early.
I don't know much but at least I know that much.