[DontShootMe]

Mere pocket change!

http://www.gunbroker.com/auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=13339863

[mrbill]

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[Kalindras]

Well, for getting five Colt SAs, each at a relative $9000, that doesn't seem so bad...mind you, they won't be gracing MY wall any time soon, but consider:

1. Each one is hand-engraved. With Ivory grips and gold embellishment. Materials ALONE on these things probably ran a couple grand apiece!

2. A matching set of FIVE?!? Two, I can see, but FIVE? That's just CRAZY beautiful!

3. They're Colts, so it's not as though you're looking at depreciation being a problem.

Now, that being said, notice also that NO ONE has stepped up to the plate, as of 0645, to say, "Hey, I'm independently wealthy, love guns, and can't live without these...!"

:evil:

[BigG]

Those snubby bbls just don't look raght on a hoglaig! :uhoh:

[Mike Irwin]

That price doesn't seem too bad for the new Sig 1911... :)

[RustyHammer]

For THAT kind of money, you buy a plane ticket and fly over to take a look at them before your purchase!

[MuzzleBlast]

Are they even real Colts? If so, are they old ones or new ones? 45 kilobucks for pimped-out SAA clones is a scam.

[C.R.Sam]

New Colts as of 1987.

Book at about $4,500 WITHOUT the engraving, for the set with case and badge.
Set retailed for $7,500 at time of issue.

Sam

Moving to revolvers

[M58]

Thinking....
thinking....
thinking...
Pass!

:neener:
:evil:






P.S. any idea how many M58s and M57s that would buy??

[Standing Wolf]

I wouldn't pay a nickel over $42,875.34 for those pistols!

[4v50 Gary]

Cheaper to buy your own Colt and commission an engraver to have at it.

[DennisE]

If I bought them, I'd shoot 'em. Dennis

[Okiecruffler]

Now why would someone go and ruin a perfectly good pistol with all that lacy girly rubbish.

[C.R.Sam]

That's over $8,000 EACH for engraving done by one guy in the style of another guy.

Seems awfully steep any way I look at em.

Sam

[Randy63]

Guys,
45K is the opening bid. The reserve may be much higher than that!

Randy

[tex_n_cal]

Ya know, once a group of us went to Prima, a very nice restaurant in Walnut Creek, CA. We're looking through the wine list, some of the best and rarest bottles were $8000. My buddy exclaimed, "That's for the guy who comes in here already drunk, and says 'I want the most expensive bottle of wine in the house!'"

Somewhere, someone will inherit a bunch of money, or hit the lotto and say, "I'm gonna buy the MOST expensive gun on Gunbroker!"

And that situation, I expect, is what those revolvers are for.:evil:

Of course, another way to look at it - $45,000 will here buy you five revolvers, but only half of a new Holland & Holland:neener:

[Wildalaska]

My best guess is that these were commisioned "in the white" out of the custom shop (hence the serial numbers), then engrqaved and finished. I dont know the engraver, nor his charges, but the finisher, Doug Turnbull, is one of the finest out there and he is well worth the money. On the other hand, I think you would have a cost of about $4000-5000 per gun which is what I would run em at if anyone wanted such a set...

WildcallmeAlaska

[ruger357]

Have to store em at the bank.

[JShirley]

Woulda made more sense to start with 3" bl and go up- of course, that would have been more work for the engraver! :)

[George Hill]

"Those snubby bbls just don't look raght on a hoglaig!"

Agreed. And I love snubs... but that just isnt right. On a SAA, 4 is the shortest you should go. Still nice collection - even if it is one without any history or anything... Sure, they are works of art... and I can appreciate that... maybe in the 20,000 range at the absolute top end.

[BluesBear]

I bought a NIB 3rd Generation Colt SAA "Sheriff's Model" 3" .44/40-.44 Special in 1981.

It was a GREAT winter coat pocket gun and was the best pointing SA that I have ever found.