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Unusual US Colt Cavalry Revolver with Story

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Whats your take on this?
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  • rufe-snow
    The 11th commandment of gun collecting is that you buy the gun for what it is, not for the BS story that comes with it.
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  • Old-Colts
    David F. Clark inspected during two time periods, so the DFC frame (1880), while inspected during the earlier period, isn't rare. At first it appears to be an arsenal rework that came out with a 7 1/2 inch barrel rather than a 5 1/2 inch barrel and a non-matching triggerguard (1891), but no serial number on the butt of the backstrap is a problem. In my opinion the gun was possibly put together by other than arsenal personnel, or reworked at some date probably later than 1891, and there's no documentation for the story.

    The front sight doesn't have the correct profile, so that would be a concern also.

    Too many questionable things on this Colt.
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  • Spider7115
    quote:Originally posted by rufe-snow
    The 11th commandment of gun collecting is that you buy the gun for what it is, not for the BS story that comes with it.


    Amen to that. I can't count the number of beat-up old muzzleloaders that sellers have claimed to be "Confederate" simply because they were bought in the South. Caveat Emptor.
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  • 11b6r
    "Buy the gun, not the story." Had a friend that worked for the White House of the Confederacy- he used to joke that the reason the South lost was that Gen. Lee could not move- trying to haul around the several thousand revolvers that belonged to him.
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