Can you post some pictures?

 

Hi, here are some pics the current owner sent me. Not very clear or detailed but I am meeting him on Saturday and I will take my camera with and get some decent detailed pics. In the meantime: the serial number seems to have been worked on...? Any other comments?

 

I could not take any as I did not have my camera with me and I did not want to draw too much attention to it. I will contact the owner and ask him to send me some pictures or see if I can go to him to take some.

 

First...Welcome to the Forum from (northern) South Texas!

Second...Really good quality pictures are necessary, as many as you can get. The Walker is possibly one of the most faked collector guns around.

 

While not out of the question...the odds of it being a true Colt Walker are mighty slim. Counterfeits have been presented as genuine for many decades...probably more of them that originals. I understand counterfeits can be traced back to the 1920s so it's not a new phenomena.

Photos are necessary as there are member here who are very good at telling the differences between genuine and imitation.

Still...there's always the chance it could be real.

 

While not out of the question...the odds of it being a true Colt Walker are mighty slim. Counterfeits have been presented as genuine for many decades...probably more of them that originals. I understand counterfeits can be traced back to the 1920s so it's not a new phenomena.

Photos are necessary as there are member here who are very good at telling the differences between genuine and imitation.

Still...there's always the chance it could be real.

hello, mr. whiplash; could be a second contract dragoon mistaken for 1847 model, biggest difference is cylinder.

regards, bro

 

Thanks Gents for your reply. I have contacted the owner and await his response. I have my doubts that it is genuine, it seems too good to be true and the big put off is the serial number. He also has no history, records or documentation available but it does certainly look impressive and is worth looking in to. He wants about $7500 for it which also seems odd. If it is real...cool, if not....an interesting piece.

 

He wants about $7500 for it which also seems odd..

And that’s your first clue that this example is very likely a fake.

When an individual other than a close friend or relative—and, usually, unfortunately, a close friend or relative—presents a Colt Walker for $7500, odds are overwhelmingly in favor of the Colt Walker not being genuine and well overpriced as a reproduction at $7500.

 

Hello and welcome to the Colt Forum from West Virginia. Glad you have joined us all here. Possibly a Dragoon?

 

I have owned a Dragoon and this is definitely not a Dragoon.

 

hello, sir; second contract revolvers,were called fluck model after ther researcher. colt complained to congress he lost money on 1847 contract so was given this contract in compensation. good lawyer, good friends in congress like collins. i had a chance to purchase a very worn pair in yankton, s d in '55 but we thought at the time they were faked so-called 60/40 fake 1847's. they were not.

 

"He wants about $7500 for it which also seems odd. " That is way beneath the price for a genuine Walker Colt. I'd require an expert opinion before I bought it.

 

100% Correct ^^^^

 

I can say this……. I love the interest spurred when there is a new post on the possibility of an original Walker being found. 👍👍😎😎

 

My tail started wagging when I saw it, I must admit.

 

I bet. Wouldn’t it be something if it was authentic. Your tail would go crazy…. I’m sure. 👍👍

 

I have a Colt 2nd Generation 1847 Walker thanks to a great Forum member here. It’s as close as I will ever come to an original, I’m sure. Definitely out of my pay grade. 😂😂

 

This post here is fun to watch.

"As reported in America's 1st Freedom magazine in July 2018, a Model 1847 Colt Walker pistol – the only known surviving example complete with its original case – was sold by Rock Island Auction for a record price of $1.84 million."

Holy crap!!

 

This is fun to watch.

"As reported in America's 1st Freedom magazine in July 2018, a Model 1847 Colt Walker pistol – the only known surviving example complete with its original case – was sold by Rock Island Auction for a record price of $1.84 million."

Holy crap!!

Agree 100%. Love it myself my Forum Friend. 👍👍

 

Here are a few of my reproductions.

 

Here are a few of my reproductions.


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hi, excellent! you keep them well.
i will hope you find the last collins or one of the 1847's robin was searching for.

jim

 

Wow! All this thread about something that we do not know exists, let alone if it is what they think it is.

 

Welcome to the COLT Forum from the Cradle Of Liberty...Pennsylvania !!

Enjoy Our Community Sir... and I hope your new found "Walker" turns out to be authentic.

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Welcome to the COLT Forum from the Cradle Of Liberty...Pennsylvania !!

Enjoy Our Community Sir... and I hope your new found "Walker" turns out to be authentic.

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hello shooter; that would be great, perhaps one we could measure against the numerous fakes which abound.

regards, bro

 

I am going to suggest that a permanent thread be created: “So you think you have found an original Colt Walker or Paterson.”

 

If it's priced under 250K be careful.
Ask the seller if it's original or repro aged back. If he says IDK, ask where he got it. Provenance is EVERYTHING with these.

 

Unfortunately he has no provenance or anything on the item, very sad.

 

I’m my opinion, having no provenance at all is a huge red flag.

jpn

 

 

I am having deja vu real bad. Didn't this exact scenario just happen a year ago with almost the same price? At the time it was thought that if it was real, the price was unbelievably low and if it was a reproduction it was crazy high? It seems to me, that a seller of something like this is going to do some homework and if real, it's going to be at what other authentic Walkers sold for. I think many buyers think, that if I keep this on the down low, I can swoop in and make a fortune. In reality, it is most likely a defarbed reproduction meant to trick a buyer. Can it not be checked to see if the screw threads are metric or standard? For $7000, surely the seller can check that in front of you.

Here is a thread MRCVS started to help:

Putting to rest the myth that one’s Colt Walker might be...

On various occasions, well meaning individuals post photographs of their Colt Walker revolver and the sentiment ranges from confidence that it’s the genuine article, to hope that it is, to doubts that it is, but, hey, maybe, you never know. Here’s why that one can prove definitively that one’s...

www.coltforum.com

 

Well, since the originals did not evaporate, there must be 1,000 somewhere. I have an absolutely new, unfired Walker in the box. "Saint Mark's Armory" or some such. OK, tongue in cheek there...

 

Out of the 1,000 original Colt Walkers built, only about 5,000 exist today. [emoji849]

 

Welcome from South Texas! You have already stirred things up, great thread going.

 

This is my 3rd Series Signature Edition Colt Walker. Eric Deaton...who wrote "Collecting Modern Colt Blackpowder Revolvers"...said it's the highest serial number he has seen. I guess it's possible it might be the last Colt Walker made...possibly.

 

Beautiful condition. That think is SWEET !! 👍👍

 

I'm looking forward to updates on this thread. It would be very nice to think another had been found, but some of the posted information seems to weigh considerably heavy against it being so. Still, stranger things have happened.

My three Black Box Walkers.

 

 

i would not even let randolph scott (cue the heavenly music) remove a screw from mine.

 

i would not even let randolph scott (cue the heavenly music) remove a screw from mine.

cue heavenly chorus
regards,