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This page describes Historical Arms that were recently sold at auction by registered auction houses.
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​See also : Historical arms  Wild West
Colt 1836-62

1868 Navy Revolver ex Wild Bill Hickok
2022 SOLD for $ 620K by RIAC

James B. Hickok, adequately nicknamed Wild Bill, was a figure of the Wild West. This skilled gunfighter improved his reputation of a folk hero by his fictitious legends about his own shoots, as some others also did.

He used to hang on his belt a pair of factory engraved ivory handled Colt Model 1851 Navy percussion revolvers, dated 1868 from their serial numbers, certainly acquired new by him.

Wild Bill was murdered in 1876 in the Dakota Territory, later South Dakota, in a saloon while playing poker. His pair of Colts was immediately sold, possibly auctioned, to pay the funerals.

One of them surfaced still loaded in 1982 from a dealer who had traded it several years before. It had an earlier narrated provenance from South Dakota. The Cody Firearms Museum already had the pairing piece from a donation and reconstituted the pair on loan.

The 1982 discovery in fair condition was sold for $ 620K from a lower estimate of $ 140K by RIAC on May 15, 2022, lot 3116. Please watch the video shared by the auction house.

​1872 SAA number 1
2009 SOLD for $ 860K by Greg Martin

On January 18, 2009, Greg Martin auctioned a collection of Colts, split in 77 lots.
 

Lot 51 is the serial number 1 of the Colt Single Action Army (SAA) revolver, patented in 1871 and 1872. For Americans, this six shots handgun is the "Colt that Won the West," and it was nicknamed "Peacemaker".

Here's what this firearm was then supposed telling to its owner. You will appreciate the true Western charm of this four lines of poetry:
"Be not afraid of any man,
No matter what his size,
Just call on me in time of need,
and I will equalize."

This prestigious example went to Christie's in 1987 and received in the same year a leather showcase. After the sale, the purchaser has made some miniature replica edited by the U.S. Historical Society, Richmond, Virginia, with the authorization of the Colt company.

In a mere fine condition, it was sold for $ 860K from a lower estimate of $ 500K.

1874 Cavalry SAA
2022 SOLD for $ 760K by RIAC

A cavalry example of the Colt Single Action Army revolver with a battlefield history from the most famous event of the Indian Wars was sold for $ 760K from a lower estimate of $ 350K by RIAC on May 14, 2022, lot 1135. Please watch the video shared by the auction house.

This .45 Long gauge Colt had been released from factory in 1874 within a lot of five attributed to the 7th Cavalry just before that company departed for the Black Hills expedition. After the battle of the Little Bighorn famous as the Custer massacre in 1876, it was picked with its worn Civil War period holster on the battlefield by a Native American villager.

The Indian kept it proudly and carefully as a war relic. In 1915 an elderly Native traded it in a shop near Denver for a pair of pants and a blanket and narrated its origin. It remained for four generations in the family of the shop owner. Its condition remains extremely fine overall and mechanically excellent in its original Cavalry model configuration.

​1876-1880 Buggy Rifle
2012 SOLD for $ 550K by RIAC

On September 9, 2012, RIAC sells a revolver from one of the most stunning models of the nineteenth century.

In 1876, on the occasion of the huge Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, Colt identifies as the "buggy rifles" a type of revolver with very long barrel, .45 Long gauge, fitted with a detachable shoulder stock. About thirty serial numbers are assigned to this novelty, and the corresponding copies will be manufactured before 1882.

These thirty pieces include several variants. One of them got the longest available barrel, no less than 16 inches. In overall nice condition, it was sold for $ 550K from a lower estimate of $ 325K by RIAC on September 9, 2012. It had been delivered in 1880 by Colt to a firearm dealer.

In December 2010, the same auction house sold for $ 368K a very similar unit in near new condition.

The term buggy rifle vanished after 1931. At that date, a novelist-biographer of the Wild West wanted to give a role, which has never been demonstrated, to his predecessor Ned Buntline in the promotion of this model. That "Colt Buntline" name will afterwards be generalized to other ultra-long barrel Colt revolvers.

History fades more and more behind legend. The spaghetti westerns of Sergio Leone relived these extraordinary firearms with which the villains brandishing them become even more wicked.

Please watch the video shared by RIAC, featuring three Colts including this exciting example :

1876 Centennial Exhibition SAA
2009 SOLD for $ 700K by James D. Julia

narrated and linked below

1879 DeLuxe SAA
2019 SOLD for $ 520K by RIAC

The Single Action Army (SAA) Colt revolver was an unprecedented success, with 357,000 units manufactured between 1873 and 1941. It is nicknamed the Peacemaker and also the Long Colt. It was designed for the US military with a .45 gauge. From the very first year some variants are prepared for export, starting with Prussia and England.

This firearm is made for use, not for prestige. The first opportunity to adorn SAAs with factory engraved panels is the Centennial Exhibition held in Philadelphia in 1876. The Colt's Fire Arms Co showcase is decorated with a spectacular rose window of revolvers including an inner circle of sixteen SAAs.

One of them, a .45 in superb condition, was sold for $ 700K by Julia in March 17, 2009, lot 2032. The abundant engraving on nickel is attributed to Herman Ulrich. The side panels are illustrated respectively of a wolf and a bear in action in a mountain landscape. The rest of the piece is almost entirely embellished with foliated arabesques, plus a few secondary panels with floral motifs.

An engraved SAA was sold for $ 520K from a lower estimate of $ 375K by RIAC at Rock Island IL on December 6, 2019, lot 31. Its gauge is .455 in the British standard for use with black powder cartridges. Its serial number corresponds to a manufacture in 1879. The side panels are illustrated respectively of a bear hunt and a buffalo hunt, and a third panel shows a Native American on horseback.

All elements converge to consider it is as a piece of exhibition. Unknown up to now, it does not appear in Colt's sales records. It is in an almost mint condition with 95% of its original finish. The quality of the engraving by Herman Ulrich or Gustave Young is similar to the Centennial example described above.

The best scenario is that this revolver was prepared for the Melbourne International Exhibition of 1880, in which the Colt company participated, and that it was never returned to the stock. Please watch the video in which Kevin Hogan, president of the auction house, tells his investigation.

1880-1881 the Colt SAA that killed Billy the Kid
2021 SOLD for $ 6M by Bonhams

From 1878 in New Mexico, the Lincoln County War is a conflict without mercy between gangs for the control of cattle and horses. The very young Billy the Kid, a robber from the age of 16, a murderer for any reason and a federal fugitive, went to be one of these gang leaders. He used several names in his short life, all of them in relation with his family.

In November 1880, Pat Garrett is elected sheriff of the county. Although his term was to begin on January 1, he immediately obtains a commission to pursue Billy the Kid within the limits of the county. On December 13 a $ 500 bounty is posted by the governor for the capture of the outlaw.

On December 23 Billy the Kid and his whole gang are captured by Garrett and his men. Sentenced to hang, Billy escapes from custody on April 28. While in jail his notoriety had raised through the local gazettes.

Garrett is not yet awarded with the bounty. On July 14, in search for the fugitive, he discusses the issue with a ranch owner. Around midnight a man enters the room in the dark. Garrett will state that he had recognized the voice of Billy the Kid. He fires twice and kills the man.

The revolver that killed Billy the Kid is a Colt Single Action Army made in 1880, taken near new by Garrett when he arrested the gang on November 23. It was sold for $ 6M from a lower estimate of $ 2M by Bonhams on August 27, 2021, lot 11.

The corpse was certified by the local justice of the peace but the reward was not paid to Garrett. He managed to respond to the rumors that he had been unfair. His biographical account of Billy the Kid co-authored by an itinerant journalist was considered as factual in period. It contributed to transform that ferocious but enigmatic desperado into the major folk hero of the Wild West.

A doubt still subsists on who was killed by Garrett on July 14. On July 28 a local newspaper reported that the outlaw had allowed his beard to grow and had stained his skin brown to look like a Mexican. Dead or alive, the mythic gang leader never resumed his criminal industry.

The Early West, our upcoming auction on 27 Aug, features one of the most iconic weapons of the American Wild West — the gun that killed 19th century outlaw #BillytheKid.

h/t @Reuters

— Bonhams (@bonhams1793) July 22, 2021
Historical Arms
Wild West

1891 Cavalry SAA
2022 SOLD for $ 760K by RIAC

Colt's Single Action Army revolver, listed for the artillery with a standard length barrel and for the cavalry with a longer barrel, was the official US pistol from 1873 to 1892.  In 1893, the .45 Colt SAA was retired by the Cavalry and replaced by a .38 caliber Colt double action while the .45 SAA was still in use in other branches of the Army.

The final .45 cavalry contract was supplied in 1891 in two production batches of 1,000 units each. An example from the first batch was kept in pristine condition. It had probably been sold as surplus by the Army in the 1920s and has never been fired. 

The cylinder, screws and trigger 
retain 99% of its original blue finish. The inscriptions are sharp and some original polishing lines are still exrant. A few very slight storage marks are observed. The case colors keep a near perfect opalescent brilliance. 

This time capsule was sold for $ 760K from a lower estimate of $ 125K by RIAC on August 26, 2022, lot 121. Its authenticity has been deeply analyzed by an expert with no remaining doubt. Please watch the video shared by the auction house.

An unfired 1880 Cavalry single action revolver in a similar pristine condition was sold for $ 400K by RIAC on September 6, 2019, lot 124.

Some examples from the second 1891 batch are also know in new or near new condition.

1891-1895 the Colt that killed John Wesley Hardin
​2021 SOLD for $ 860K by Bonhams

John Wesley Hardin was one of the foremost gunfighters of the Wild West. Sentenced in 1878 to 25 years in jail, he complacently wrote an autobiography in a view to become a folk hero and studied law not without some success. He was released from prison in February 1894 and moved to El Paso, Texas, circa January 1895. He soon fell again to crime, drink and gamble.

John Selman Sr had been a gang leader in the Lincoln County war. The former outlaw went to El Paso where he worked as a constable.

The story of the Wild West is a long series of crimes followed by lawsuits in which the killers claim the self-defense. The El Paso story is as follows.

The semi-prostitute Beulah M'Roze is an acquaintance to Hardin. Her husband is killed in June 1895 in the presence of Scarborough. The ever boastful Harlin claims while drinking that he had paid Scarborough for the crime. Selman's son John Jr heavily fines the widow M'Roze on a drunk and disorderly charge. Hardin insults the Selmans.

On August 19, Hardin plays dice at the bar of the saloon. Selman Sr enters and kills Hardin by a gun shot in the back of the head. Selman testifies that he was in self-defense when he saw Hardin taking hold of a gun. Released on bond pending a retrial, Selman Sr is killed by Scarborough.

Both guns from the August 19 story were exhibited at Selman's trial and referred in the proceedings with their serial numbers. Both were auctioned together by the court and did not part one another until they were sold separately by Bonhams on August 27, 2021.

Selman's gun, a Colt revolver made in 1891, was sold for $ 860K, lot 20. Hardin's Smith and Wesson revolver was sold for $ 630K, lot 19.

1897 SAA Sears and Roebuck Cow Boy Special
2009 SOLD for $ 750K by James D. Julia

sold by James D. Julia for $ 750K on March 17, 2009, lot 2030.

1912 The Bull Moose Colt
2020 SOLD for $ 1.47M by RIAC

On October 10, 1912, the Colt Company received an order for a single action revolver which must reach Colonel (and former President) Roosevelt on October 27 for his 54th birthday. It will be silver inlaid in class 5, the highest level of embellishment offered by Colt, and one of the two ivory plates of the grip will be engraved with a steer head, the ox's head which is a symbol of strength and leadership. The author of the order has not been identified.

The presidential election is in full swing. Taft, the outgoing president, received the Republican nomination. In open conflict with his successor, Roosevelt created the Progressive Party with which he wishes to rally progressive, radical, conservative and even democratic sensibilities. The symbol of the party is the bull moose, a majestic king of the forest.

On October 14 in Milwaukee, while preparing to deliver an election speech, Roosevelt is the victim of an assassination attempt. The bullet, slowed down by the glasses case and the thick bundle of speech, penetrates his chest. The old hunter appreciates that the wound will not be fatal. He begins his 90 minute address by stating : "It takes more than that to kill a bull moose."

The election will be won by the Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson. It would have taken much longer for the new party to establish a real support network, but Roosevelt still obtains more than 4 million votes, far ahead of Taft.

The Colt class 5 is given as planned to Roosevelt for his birthday. The former president undoubtedly took it with him in the following year on his exhausting expedition to Brazil, which would explain a wear of the finish. Then this firearm remained anonymous for a long time because of the inversion of two figures in the factory documents.

Traceability has been restored. The "Bull Moose Colt" was sold by RIAC on December 5, 2020 for $ 1.47M from a lower estimate of $ 350K, lot 1210. Please watch the video shared by the auction house.

(1909)- 1969 Screen Used Colt of John Wayne
2021 SOLD for $ 520K by RIAC

On October 7, 2021, a revolver screen used by John Wayne and owned by him in period was sold by RIAC for $ 520K from a lower estimate of $ 20K, lot 2465.

This arm had been shipped from factory by Colt in 1909 as a Single Action Army revolver.

Its authenticated filmography includes the 1969 True Grit. 'Duke' won in the next year his top ranking award, Best Actor in the Academy Awards, for his role of a US Marshal in that film. It was also used in 1972 in The Cowboys and in 1975 in a follow to True Grit titled Rooster Cogburn.

John Wayne was featured with this Colt and its holster in 1972 on a cover page of Life Magazine.
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