[Jpn]

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

jpn

 

[WVCOLT]

Well, both are beauties my Friend...but I'll admit that the Walker is my overall favorite, a BFR in my favorite caliber has got me to a thinkin'...and we both know that's dangerous !!

I must agree…. The Walker is “KING” IMHO. By the way…. I’m right with ya on the thinking. Gets me in trouble every time. 😂😂😂

 

[SHOOTER13]

 

[Agarbers]

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

 

[seabobro46]

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

hello; in dealing with someone
selling an 1847 colt, i actually feel better with him than with one with an arnload of faked paperwork and grandma's memoirs. all can be faked, just like the arms,

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

hello; it is very difficult to persuade a person selling an apparent 1847 - colt called it a walker - dragoon to allow a non expert even to hold his property because expensive damage can be incurred. example, the keeper spring at the bottom of the barrel after over 250 years has become unbelievably WEAK and will break, it is a spring, if lucky, an unknowing person might only bend one but most of the springs are today delaminated i observed an employee of the biggest auction house on earth destroy one on a cold, cold december day in manhattan. try to purchase a replacement. parts for 1847's are small, easily misplaced or lost.

remove a screw? greg martin might convince someone to allow him to do so.

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

regards, bro

 

[seabobro46]

hi, terry; if findable, i would want more than one "expert's" opinion and a full non destructible test by mass spectrometer to discern if made with pre bessemer best NADER gun iron and gun steel or no deal. robin rapley believed there should be at least one more out there. jim

colt did specify best naylor, but we are told he bought all available on the east coast and did not have enough; we are not told what steel or iron the substitutes were. the bethlehem steel co. meterorite mine could be a candidate for some. we are not told how much substitutes nor what parts suffered the change. isn't this fun ? i suspect the quiet substitutions may have fueled a lot of the disasters because the first of them off the line were and are excellent and appear to be of the highest grade of crucible steel for making surgical and scientific instruments.

regards, bro

 

[po18guy]

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...

 

[JimK]

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

 

[MarkInTx]

1980 2nd Gen. Colt 1847 Walker SN: 4053
1979 Armi San Marco 1851 3rd Model Dragoon SN: DAC 236

Since Terry posted his...

2nd Colt Walker No. 3167

Colt 2nd Gen Fluted Cylinder 1860 Army No. 211196

 

[SnidelyWhiplash]

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.

 

[seabobro46]

Great history lesson Jim. Very much appreciate all of your input. 👍👍
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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.

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well, you haven't scarred it up it much playing with it . that is handsome. i can not get accustomed to 1847's blued and case hardened.
regards, bro

 

[WVCOLT]

Since Terry posted his...

2nd Colt Walker No. 3167
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Colt 2nd Gen Fluted Cylinder 1860 Army No. 211196
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Wow !! Very nice Mark. Very nice. 👍👍👍

 

[WVCOLT]

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 !! 👍👍

 

[Jonl51]

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

Does he seem to have any clue what he MIGHT have? His asking price would indicate he does not. However he somehow established his asking price, based on what?
Hope it’s the real deal in spite of the odds. Good luck. Jonl51

 

[Fortibus55]

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.

 

[Tom K]

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.

 

[seabobro46]

Does he seem to have any clue what he MIGHT have? His asking price would indicate he does not. However he somehow established his asking price, based on what?
Hope it’s the real deal in spite of the odds. Good luck. Jonl51

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

hello, and probably approximately 39 of them are real but may never been in mexico.

regards, bro

 

[mtidasnubby]

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

 

[seabobro46]

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

cue heavenly chorus
regards,

 

[GRI]

Armi San Marcos made in 1987. They were known for their forged frames. EMF holster…you do not see many Walker holsters, “Big Iron” on the hip.