oh hell you again that's me you got it
how you doing buddy good god okay this
is a cult third model Dragoon then I can
just imagine being an early settler
maybe even a cowboy the condition that
gun overall is better than average it's
historically significant and hopefully
that means a lot of value I keep coming
back here because hey they bought a few
guns for me what can I say you know I
can only buy new guns if I sell guns so
it works it's a real interesting story
when it comes to the gun itself this is
what made Colt successful pretty much
every adventure he had before this
failed they came up with the Colt Walker
as a 44 caliber when the most powerful
handguns ever made up until the 1930s
the problem was is the gun was so
powerful you put so much black powder in
it that it would blow up the cylinder so
they had to redesign it and they came up
with Dragoon when you came from the
Walker which like you say tended to blow
apart to suddenly have a gun that you
could count on to use mm-hmm everybody
wanted these guns yeah military bought a
huge number of them civilians bottom and
basically Colt couldn't produce enough
of them the Dragoon is the
quintessential Colt it was the most
powerful handgun on the market for
almost a hundred years if you wore one
of these on your hip in the Old West you
were pretty much the man this gun is
identified and has a name on the back
strap here JP Cole's refresh me he
sounds familiar
he was one of the original Texas land
grant holders given to American citizens
by Mexico so that Americans could move
into Texas what you have here is real
interesting man it's kind of pretty
badass to begin with but add the JP
Cole's inscription we can be talking a
lot of money
so that's what you got sounds like
you're sold you want to pay me anything
I want I take it right ha ha ha well how
much do you want for it well I can take
13,000 for it and the reason for that is
because you've got to put a value on
that identification it does come into
play we have one problem with these guns
it is probably one of the most faked
guns that they possibly make of the
world they make replicas they make
counterfeits people take the replicas
and then turn them into counterfeits so
it's just one of those guns are there's
so many of them faked out there I'm
gonna have to have somebody come in and
take a look at it okay you're calling in
your usual gun guy yeah you'll come down
I'll tell you what it's worth
yeah I'm sure he'll try all right I'll
be back Thanks they're bringing in Craig
who I've met several times here although
I don't always agree with his opinion
and hopefully there won't be a fistfight
and I won't get arrested you again
almost good to see you we got to stop
meeting like that's right so what do we
got Cory culture goon code manga you got
it with JP Cole's on the grip oh yeah
that's nice you don't usually see that
you know this was really Colts last
chance to make a good pistol and he did
it
and people liked it I think one of my
biggest concerns is I know there's a lot
of fake ones out there oh yeah
absolutely
with this particular gun the easiest way
to look at the aging would just be to
look at the engraving the role engraving
was applied using a rolling stamp okay
the reproductions weren't made that way
they usually did a machine engraving so
if you look carefully on the cylinder
you can see some very very fine ridges
under close magnification and if you see
those it means it was rolled engrave
than if it was rolling graved
it's a real gun okay okay so very easy
take a look I've been answer for you in
a second and
what do you see
I like what I said it's real okay what
do you think it's worth
guns worth about 8,500 bucks you know I
don't agree with that at all and
identified Dragoon is incredibly rare
very difficult to find this guy is
historically pretty significant
I mean beauties in the eye a beholder
the importance of this name is also in
the eye of the collector Oh Craig man I
appreciate you coming for you it's a
pleasure
Rob nice seeing you guys to see you well
maybe not so nice
rob is a good example of a collector I'm
not a collector I'm a dealer while he
might buy one or two guns a month or
maybe one or two guns a year I'm buying
hundreds and oftentimes we look at
things very differently so what will you
take for the gun I'm sorry but I very
strongly disagree with what he had to
say can you go any lower than 13,000
maybe a few hundred dollars and and
that's it so you can't do 8,500 I can't
do it even if you're a beautiful woman I
couldn't do it so no could you go nine
I'm the can't even do nine I'd go
$12,400 twelve thousand four hundred
dollars
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well we tried bye ma'am
all right thanks about you better get it
next time okay
I understand as a buyer you've got to be
conservative so I don't hold a grudge
but I don't have to make a deal either
you