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Thanks for the new "section" !

 

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Are you going to include Bisleys?

HECK NO!

Bisley's are for englishmen and no cowboy every carried one!

In reality, the Bisley model is a single action model and I've seen plenty of pictures and old cowboy holsters with bisleys tucked in them so they are good in my book!

 

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Good looking work John!

 

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Here is one of my favorites. Shipped to Simmons Hardware in Sept of 1884 this 108,xxx is completely honest and untouched with some blue and case left on it. It's extremely a rare occurrence to see a short barreled 45 with walnuts in the condition of this one. I went "all in" on this one the day I saw it. I've never done it before, but I decided that life is too short to let a higher price than what I wanted to pay keep me from buying this gun. I literally kept throwing money at the collector/dealer who had it under his table until he accepted my offer.

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Picked up a 45 colt with a 7-1/2" barrel with eagles in the 103,000 serial range. Another Simmons Hardware shipped single action.

 

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Here's a nickel 44-40 etched 4-3/4" barrel with eagles shipped to Hartley and Graham in NYC. 128,000 serial range....one of the last etched before they transitioned to the rolled "colt frontier six shooter" barrel logo.

 

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VERY nice, thanks for posting it. Still quite a bit of nickel on that honest Colt!

My pleasure! I've got a 5-1/2 in nearly the same condition in the 108,000 serial range. Old-Colts and I are joking that this pair of nickel etched barrel guns is going to make me buy a 7-1/2" nickel with eagles....LOL

 

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Picked up a 1891 shipped 45 x 4-3/4 sheriff's model the other day. Needless to say I am tickled pink!

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Ben Johnson's personal Colt SAA that I recently purchased from his long time friend and wrangler, Paul Smith; Ben used it in the movie The Train Robbers with the Duke (although it had wood stocks at that time). Paul told me that the grips broke and Ben found these in a box of parts he had. It is marked Fox Studios and was shipped to California Hardware in 1930 and is a 45 (of course). It came with paperwork supporting it's provenance! Born in Oklahoma, Ben Johnson was a ranch hand and rodeo performer when, in 1940, Howard Hughes hired him to take a load of horses to California. He decided to stick around (the pay was good), and for some years was a stunt man, horse wrangler, and double for such stars as John Wayne, Gary Cooper and James Stewart. His break came when John Ford noticed him and gave him a part in an upcoming film, and eventually a star part in Wagon Master (1950). He left Hollywood in 1953 to return to rodeo, where he won a world roping championship, but at the end of the year he had barely cleared expenses. The movies paid better, and were less risky, so he returned to the west coast and a career that saw him in over 300 movies.

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A friend of mine who lived north of Tulsa had a hunting rifle that had come from the family of Mr. Johnson a few years ago. Seems like he had an autographed picture of Mr. Johnson with a big horn sheep cradling the same rifle in his arms. My mother saw him once back in the 70's in Las Vegas coming out of the frontier and that was one of her biggest claims to fame was seeing Ben Johnson!

 

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One of my newest toys. Blue etched barrel 44-40 with 7-1/2" barrel and eagle stocks shipped to Charles Hummel and Son in San Antonio, Texas in 1885.

 

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Just got a new addition to the single action family. Shipped to H&G in NYC in 1884 45 x 7-1/2" Blue

 

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Here's one I got at the vegas show. Serial 3731 450 boxer with 7-1/2" barrel shipped in a 100 gun shipment to London January 5th 1874 in what is said was the first shipment to Von Oppen. It ended up in Durban, South Africa and has the dealer name on the butt of the walnut stocks.

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It aint pretty but one can only wonder where this one has been hanging out. 45 x 4-3/4 blue with one piece walnut stocks from 1884. I kind of like the star in the grip.

 

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Now an old boy (1891) with very good timing View attachment 101968

I have to ask Chad....how does that one date to 1891 with a transverse cylinder pin release? Some things make me scratch my head!