Les sends me these stories of these famous guns fetching huge money at auction. Butch Cassidy’s
A .45-caliber gun once owned by Butch Cassidy has sold at auction in Southern California for $175,000.
A spokesman for the private seller said Sunday that the Colt Single Action Army revolver went to an anonymous online bidder.
Wow! And I thought the new SAA guns being sold by Colt were expensive! Seriously tho, black powder is horrible on steel, and the steel from those days is a lot less durable than the stuff we have today. To have a gun of this vintage survive the tests of time, and to have a famous pedigree makes the value go up.
Two guns once in the possession of notorious gangsters Bonnie and Clyde when they were killed in a hail of gunfire have sold at a New Hampshire auction for more than half a million dollars….Bobby Livingston of RR Auction said Bonnie Parker’s .38-caliber Detective Special that she had taped to her thigh when she was killed in 1934 in Louisiana drew the highest bid and sold for $264,000. Livingston said Clyde Barrow’s 1911 Colt .45-caliber automatic sold for $240,000 to the same bidder, who didn’t want to be named.
Huge money!
You know, every time Old NFO comes back from overseas and gets those Fat Paychecks, some cool Firearm get sold off. ; )
Recently got to look at a Martini Henry dated 1875. Worn finish, but quite good condition, and then we wiped out the bore, and it was beautiful; good rifling, bright, just amazing condition. Considering the long-term effects of black fouling, even with good cleaning it was surprising it could be that good.