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Hi everyone;
I'm not sure if I've posted about this one before but seeing as many of us like a "story" with a gun I thought you might enjoy the story with this one.
About eight or nine years ago I sold this Colt Officers Model .22 Long Rifle to a friend. He's come up against some bad times, his wife had cancer and the driving to appointments and everything else has just about broke him literally and financially. Anyway, he came over a month or so to ask if I would buy some of the guns I sold him eight years ago. I gave him what he paid for them and he was happy as a pig-in-the-mud.
The story;
I acquired this gun about fourteen years prior to me selling them, from a good friend who ask if I would make him a knife. I said I would, and made the knife and got this gun in trade. According to my friend, the gun belonged to his wife's father before they ended up with it, and his wife's father had won it in a poker game in Port Hop, Ontario, Canada. The gentleman that had owned it was apparently an employee of Colt, and he had moved to Canada to work for Colt Canada.
On the butt of the revolver is the original owners name, "Chas. Van Studdiford". I have no way of verifying if Mr. Studdiford did indeed work for Colt but if he did, then I believe the rest of the story would likely be true also.
Here's a few more.
Here's a few more photos, and if you'd like to see more, I have about twenty I took this afternoon.
Bud
ps
If anyone could give me an idea of its value I would appreciate it.
I'm not sure if I've posted about this one before but seeing as many of us like a "story" with a gun I thought you might enjoy the story with this one.
About eight or nine years ago I sold this Colt Officers Model .22 Long Rifle to a friend. He's come up against some bad times, his wife had cancer and the driving to appointments and everything else has just about broke him literally and financially. Anyway, he came over a month or so to ask if I would buy some of the guns I sold him eight years ago. I gave him what he paid for them and he was happy as a pig-in-the-mud.
The story;
I acquired this gun about fourteen years prior to me selling them, from a good friend who ask if I would make him a knife. I said I would, and made the knife and got this gun in trade. According to my friend, the gun belonged to his wife's father before they ended up with it, and his wife's father had won it in a poker game in Port Hop, Ontario, Canada. The gentleman that had owned it was apparently an employee of Colt, and he had moved to Canada to work for Colt Canada.
On the butt of the revolver is the original owners name, "Chas. Van Studdiford". I have no way of verifying if Mr. Studdiford did indeed work for Colt but if he did, then I believe the rest of the story would likely be true also.

Here's a few more.




Here's a few more photos, and if you'd like to see more, I have about twenty I took this afternoon.
Bud
ps
If anyone could give me an idea of its value I would appreciate it.