Colt is selling out!

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COLT IS SELLING OUT! :what:

Well not exactly. What they are doing is liquidating their Colt Factory Firearms Archive Collection. That means literally hundreds of rare and unique experimental models, prototypes, mock-ups, cut-away’s, and much, much more.

There are guns of all kinds – pistols, revolvers, (both single and double action) as well as second generation cap & balls). I was fascinated and amazed at some of the things I saw. Many I suspect, were never seen outside the Colt factory, so this is a unique experience because after they are auctioned off they will most likely be in private collections and off limits to the public. Therefore THIS IS YOUR ONE AND ONLY CHANCE TO SEE WHAT IS THERE!

You only have a short time. The auction will be held tomorrow (January 18, 2009, 3:30 pm PST) at Greg Martin Auctions in California. If you log in on to the link listed below you can view what is up for auction. Be sure to click on the thumbnail pictures so that you can see a larger one, and you can download those larger pictures to your computer. If you want you can follow the auction to see what the winning bids are, but I strongly suggest that you go as soon as possible to view the collection before the frenzy starts. For those that are interested in Colt handguns there is something for everyone – and then some. There is also an excellent collection of original frontier era Colt’s going on the block, including a “Texas” model Patterson and a Walker.

Beats looking at the boob-tube by far, and you might learn something.

http://www.proxibid.com/asp/Catalog.asp?aid=16712
 
Oh just great, all those guns are going to be bought up and hidden away buy some rich collector. It's just not right they hide them away like that but there's nothing that can be done about it once they are privately owned.

I just looked at the auction, there must be several Million Dollars worth of guns there!!!!
 
They've done something similar before, haven't they? Didn't they get rid of a bunch of the company "collection" in exchange for rights to build the Colt 2000?

Wonder if they'll do that again. :D
 
I can't afford any of those guns either, but do what I’m going to, and it won’t cost you a cent. :)

1. Go to the item you’re interested in and click on the small thumbnail in the item listing.

2. A new page will come up. Expand it to full size.

3. You will see a larger picture, an item description, and possibly more thumbnails on the left margin.

4. At the top of the picture you just brought up at the top it says “larger picture.” Click on that.

5. A larger picture will come up. Place your cursor somewhere in the middle of that, click with the right button on your mouse. A menu will pop up.

6. Click on “Save picture to” and a copy of the picture will be saved in “My Pictures.” You can go back and expand and copy any or all of the thumbnails on the left margin you see in step #3

7. You can also highlight text with your mouse and then cut & paste it to a page in your word processor.

All of this will work in Windows XP and Vista. Not sure about others, but if there are other or better ways to do this someone will chime in.

Later all of this can be saved to a scrapbook or folder. I’d rather have the gun too – but this is better then nothing, and it may be your only chance. Do make a point to take it. :cool:
 
FWIW, The terms and conditions you have to agree with to use the site specifically forbid taking pictures from the website. I don't know if there is any way for them to determine that. If there are any web techies here let us know. I'm guilty of snagging pics all the time. If they find out you will be barred from the site and auction proceedings. They do have some nice stuff. You never know with auctions. You may just get something nobody is paying much attention to at a great price. Thanks Old Fuff for the "heads-up" on this auction.
 
I just saved a bunch of the "SN #1" 1873.

Damn. The FIRST production pistol, #1, of what is quite possibly one of the most famous firearms in history.......and they're selling it.
 
FWIW, The terms and conditions you have to agree with to use the site specifically forbid taking pictures from the website. I don't know if there is any way for them to determine that
Click to expand...

The HTTP/GET requests are almost identical. The "Accept" field in the header varies on "right-click,save-as" as opposed to just loading the page. (I did only checked in Firefox.) That policy is probably in place to give proxibid legal room for use against folks who are using wget to download the auction images in bulk. I'd guess. Maybe. "Here's our auction images. But don't download them. Well, again. Your browser already downloaded them once, and they're in your cache. But don't use them. Except to give us money" only inspires sympathy. Obviously, whoever asked the company lawers to write that doesn't quite understand this intarwebs thing.

That's beside the point, though. I didn't even get a "by using this site you agree to give us your first-born children, blah blah blah" EULA. Click-through EULAs not enough anymore? We got ninja EULAs now? "You agreed to our TOS last *year*! In your sleep! Ha HA!"

Anyway. There's no "Zonoes-Stealin-Images:yes" header.
 
I copied a few pictures on a "fair use" basis, meaning they are for my personal use and not reproduction - expecially for any commercial purpose. I think anyone can do that. I'll know, if or when I'm barred from the site. So far there hasen't been any reaction.
 
Phenomenal finds in there, Fuff.

John Wesley Hardin's business card really intrigued me.
Some of those things are amazing and extremely rare. Wish I had been born to a rich family, now. Oh well.

It is a shame that we'll never see this stuff again.
 
If you really read the descriptions you’ll soon realize that what they have is most (maybe all) of Colt's planed or proposed innovations from about 1945 to present. If they had actually made and marketed a lot of that stuff they'd be in clover today. I even came across a prototype that had some of the construction features in the new just-now-introduced Ruger pocket revolver.

Colt's present management has lost me. :confused: If I had been in charge I would first have taken all of these guns, and used them to put out a coffee table book - and made money off of the book. Then after the book had created a lot of interest - and only then - I would have auctioned off the guns with a lot of pre-auction publicity. That in turn would have generated more bidders and probably higher bids.

I also noticed that the same people - who are obviously well heeled collectors or dealers, are making the present high bids on various guns. Since the auction is apparently not well advertised beyond a certain circle of people (I only found out yesterday afternoon when a friend tipped me) I expect we will see some of these guns for sale on different websites at notably higher prices. I suspect there are some folks who would prefer that I didn't let the cat out of the bag.
 
They've lost me too.


"FWIW, The terms and conditions you have to agree with to use the site specifically forbid taking pictures from the website."

I didn't agree to anything, a google search took me directly to the SAA#1 page. Why was I searching for the #1 SAA? Easy, I'd seen the pic posted on another site. I would think they'd like a little free auction publicity, but what do I know.

John
 
Not sure, but I believe that if you sign up to be a bidder, and open an account by providing a credit card number, the "terms and conditions" thing comes up. Since you aren't a qualified bidder, but rather a visitor, I think you're home free. In any case I'm not going to worry about it.
 
I'm watching the auction live on web cast. Selling price for the 1873 Army .45 Serial number 1 was $750,000!!!! That's about $749,000 too rich for my blood.

I'm just hoping I might pick up a decent Government Model, or a Police Positive. It's not looking good though. There are some folks with some serious money in the audience.

Thanks to Old Fuff for bringing this auction to our attention. It really is amazing to watch!
 
Damn, I tried to bid on #103, the hard chrome Delta Elite. They are moving so fast, they closed the auction out before they got my bid. I submitted my bid and they closed out the auction a couple seconds later. I would have paid more than the gun sold for. :(
 
You have to go well forward, and not wait until almost the last minute. There are more interesting pieces coming so see if you can find them now.

Yes, the do move fast... :what:
 
trbon8r:

I'm just hoping I might pick up a decent Government Model, or a Police Positive. It's not looking good though.
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I notice that some items are selling at the low end of the estimate, or sometimes well below it. I wouldn't give up. Your best chance is to pick something that isn't particularly popular, and the Police Positive Special's meet that description. So go shopping. :)
 
Thank you sir! I'm still trying. I wanted #155 the Single Action .22, but I think the price was a bit steep. Good luck to you as well.
 
This is an Old Fuff trick... :evil:

Go to the top of the page and notice that at the upper right you can make a search. For example, if you put in the search term "Police Positive" (without the " ") you will get a list of all the Police Positive revolvers in the auction. Of course you can also use such terms as: "22" or "Government Model" or whatever.
 
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