Nice looking guns. However, given the fancy wood grain I've seen on a number of examples, it would have been nice if you'd had the stocks varnished. If you do any more (or similar guns), you may want to consider adding fire blue to the cylinder base pin, base pin latch and ejector head. The gun looks half-dressed without them. Still, they're rather handsome pieces.[URL="http://<a href="http://s172.photobucket.com/user/whyrob/media/Colt Poster P1840LBD copy_zpsslnizocx.jpg.html" target="_blank">[/URL]![]()
Well, you are really lucky - I can't find one around here, and I live just a few miles north of Austin. lol
.thanks for the photo,seeing the building where it went, is great.I spoke to the dealer i got it from and he has owned it for near 20yrs. He won it in a deceased estate auction, where it had been a sleeper forever.Well, you are really lucky - I can't find one around here, and I live just a few miles north of Austin. lol
Your SAA was delivered to the Walter Tips Hardware Store which is one of the most treasured old buildings in the city of Austin. Mr. Tips built it in 1876 on Congress Avenue, the main street of the Capital City of Texas.
It has a cast iron front façade, and as the story goes, much of the iron came from recycled Confederate cannon shells (from the American Civil War):
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