hey how's it going good i've got this cold patterson that i'm interested in selling
i think this might be a prototype that's really really cool
i came to the pawn shop today to try to sell my colt patterson prototype i'd like to buy a
house closer to my son who lives in california i would hope to get somewhere in close to 100 000
where did you get this the auction company had this on the internet and when they were
advertising it they called it a colt belt model and from the picture it just didn't look like a
belt model because of the location of these two screws in the center of the frame which tells
me that it maybe was not one of the guns that was a production model an actual cult prototype would
be a big deal this is the gun that started it all this was the first reliable revolver for hundreds
of years they were trying to make multi-shot guns but the problem was they were terrible
there was the pepper boxes it was five or six barrels and you had to hand rotate them after
every shot which by the sixth shot the entire thing was like blazing hot and if you touched
it you would burn your hand and um they just never got the design right until this came along
samuel colt is one of the biggest names and guns his multiple shot revolver first got big with
the texas rangers they used them to conquer the last remaining sections of the wild west
i mean it's a neat design it was made to just fit in your pocket without getting hung up
that's why the trigger tucked in and once you pulled it back you're ready to go i can tell
you what it's got very little use on it generally these things were beat to death i've never seen
a colt patterson prototype before this would be like a holy grail item for gun collectors
how much did you pay for it about four thousand dollars okay um my big concern is it's not real
the wear pattern right here should be just as bad as it is over here
i think it's a prototype because of the position of those screws if it's a prototype it could be
worth anywhere between 50 and 100 000 let me get someone down here to take a look at this thing
okay i'm really anxious to see what he can tell me about the gun hopefully it is a good one uh
we'll find out hey rick jameson how's it going all right here you might have a colt patterson there
um maybe but this guy right here is absolutely convinced it's a prototype
okay i'm an antique firearms appraiser and i appraised firearms that were made before 1898.
well there's probably no gun company in the world that's more recognizable than samuel colt
basically he made his fame by developing the colt revolver yeah cope had a factory in patterson new
jersey and basically that's where these guns were made and that's why they're called a patterson
you know sam cole was one of the people that helped create the idea that every family every
person should have a gun for self-defense i'm sure you don't see these that often what are
your main concerns about it my big concern is the wear on this pistol is completely wrong
but i know if it's a genuine prototype it could be worth some ridiculous money that's correct
let me take this book out here and let's make some comparison now this book is the
patterson colt book it's written by erl wilson this is the dfinity book on colt patterson's
let's just lay that gun down there and make some observations look at the angle of the
backstrap here on this gun and look at the angle here this is much more severe the lug on this
barrel is much bigger than the one here if you lay it on look where the lug comes out on this
now if you look at all the models in this book none of them look like this
to me it still looks like it's a prototype because of the position of those screws um
this screw right here appears to be a modern screw you know all these screws back then were hand made
so is it real
in my opinion
it's not real everybody has those pipe dreams of finding something that's one of a kind in
the bushes so to speak but that's pretty much a myth i would have loved for this thing to bend
real let me give you fifty thousand dollars for it but unfortunately it's not gonna happen today
thanks okay well of course i'm disappointed i wish it was the real thing i was telling
myself continually don't get over enthused about it it may be a fake
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