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Antiques Roadshow guest grins he’s ‘open to offers’ as pistol priced at 1000% increase. (Image: BBC) An Antiques Roadshow guest brought in an 1837 Colt revolver to be appraised. (Image: BBC) ...
This Colt revolver was sold by Rock Island Auction Company in August 2022 for over three-quarters of a million dollars – more than three times the upper limit of its estimated price. The firearm ...
Colt relaunched the revolver as the “Frontier Six-Shooter” and sold it for $17. The company sold 357,859 Frontiers of varying calibers between 1873 and 1941.
The top-selling revolver sold on GunBroker.com in 2020 was the recently re-launched Colt Python, a highly anticipated reintroduction of an iconic design.
1847 Colt Walker .44 Black Powder Revolver Price: $920,000 Texas Ranger Sam Wilson's 1847 Colt Walker, one of 170 surviving from an original 1,100 pistols that were ever made.
ANTIQUES ROADSHOW fans saw a guest joke about selling his rare 1937 Colt revolver after the expert announced it was now worth £150,000.
The Paterson was not a commercial success. It was not a robust gun and had very little in the way of power. When production ceased in 1842, only 2,800 had been made, and Sam Colt went into bankruptcy.
The ink has faded quite a bit, but the date, description and price are legible. On Dec. 23, 1974, I paid $101.70 for a new Colt New Frontier .22/.22 WMR revolver.
The James D. Julia auction house sold a Colt Whitneyville-Walker in 2008 for the highest price ever paid at auction for a single firearm – $920,000 – according to Auction Central News.