Maybe Drool time #1 Buffalo Bill 1860 cased commemorative

[AussieTH]

INTRODUCTION.

Hi Sportsfans!

All of the ‘Maybe Drool’ posts are of the start of my collecting efforts. All of the photos are by Arcticap who has been meticulous and careful of handling and inspecting the shipments on my behalf (notice the gloves he uses in the images). I could not have wished for a better ‘agent’ and he is a credit to the integrity and interest so many of these forum users employ – Thanks Mate – I will shout you a Kangaroo (if you can get it through quarantine) I also have 8’ of red bellied black snake if reptiles turn you on – but they are extremely venomous and are prohibited exports anyway – endangered species because Aussies kill so many but there are dozens around my place!

OK to the guns. There will be four posts of four limited edition cased sets. All of these are United States Historical Society commemoratives. All are NIB, unfired and have full documentation. All are #9 in their limited edition authenticity deeds.

William (Buffalo Bill) Cody Colt 1860 Commemorative.

This is a large cased set with accessories. The bonded ‘faux ivory’ powder flask is just about unique. The original set was to have these standard but the production run did not come up to par. The person who had this gun on order complained and the Society released one of the withheld prototypes to go with the set – along with full explanation documentation (that is remarkably candid). So take a look I will put up a pic of the entire set with accessories when I have managed to download it myself:

Point to note is that this 1860 has been cut and equipped for a shoulder stock which is not part of the cased accessories. Do not think that I can afford to have one made to fit something like this!

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The bonded ‘faux ivory’ flask

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General views of the gun and engraving.

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The wood and leather topped case.

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My admiration to Articap as capturing gold engraving is very difficult to do by camera.

Aye

Tony

 

[BCRider]

Amazing.... But do my eyes deceive me or is the inside of the cylinder chambers gold plated as well or is this a brass cylinder or is it just a trick of the lighting?

 

[AussieTH]

Dunno BC - probably Articap can tell us - all of the guns are with him still.

I do not know how gold plating is done. If it is electroplated then I assume they would have a problem doing the front of the cylinder without doing the insides of the chambers as well.

At least shows it has not been fired!

It certainly will not be brass! All of these weapons are most definitely fully fireable - but it would be an expensive shoot on the devaluing alone.

This little series started with my Heritage Walker. That is a 3rd Gen Colt. The rest I believe are Uberti repros.

Aye

Tony

 

[BCRider]

Given the fact that they almost certianly would never be fired I am not surprised that the inside of the cylinders along with the front face would be gold plated.

All four of the guns you posted are are nice. I'm not one for wall hanging jewellry but if I was these would be high on my list of things I'd like to put on display.

 

[arcticap]

This model has a matching gold frame and trigger guard.

 

[BHP FAN]

Maybe we should all gold plate the inside of our cylinders...I understand they did that to the touch holes of expensive flintlocks to prevent erosion of the metal....no,seriously that's just beautiful.