[Gabe]

http://www.connecticutshotgun.com/guns/7141.htm (Yours for only $39,995)

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"Profusely gold inlay engraved, gun was built for the Strichman family (chairman of the board for Colt Manufacturing), Art Nouveau, high relief engraved grips with orchids, marked Tiffany, the gun is specially cased, gold inlaid engraving with platinum, replacement of this gun is over $ 100,000, only a few modern guns have ever been executed by Tiffany's, one of the rarest finds we have ever encountered. Featured in "Silk & Steel" by R. L. Wilson, pages 132 - 135, the "Colt Engraving" book, Volume I, page 302 and also in the Tiffany's Company brochure.

$ 39,995"

Drool. . .

[Sisco]

After I win the lottery that'll be my carry gun. :p

[Marshall]

You think I pick up a pair of those grips at Cheaper than Dirt?


:confused:

[Plinkerton]

I don't really like it... Is it just me?

I mean, I would take it, of course...

But, for 40 Grand, I would hope for something a lot better looking...

[Bullet]

Does $40 grand sound high? I was thinking of ordering a dozen.

[stans]

Fugly!

[BluesBear]

A Diamondback?

:confused:

What? Was a Python too expensive or something?

[pauli]

so, the idea is buy that, hard chrome it, slip on some hogues, and pick up a cheap holster, ja?

[P. Plainsman]

Yep. Pop in some handloads and go knock some (Wedgwood?) pie plates off the ol' fence. ;)

Seriously, those sculpted orchid grips are very graceful. This would be just the thing with an heiress's dark blue ballgown.

A double-action brooch, as it were.

[Black Majik]

Hmm... cant really say I'm impressed... :(

[Peter M. Eick]

What a waste of a prefectly nice diamondback!

[gunfan]

That revolver is just butt-arse-ugly! :barf:

Scott

[Mike Kerr]

There I was minding my own business. Lurking without signing in. It was so ugly I had to log in to comment. Its ugly. Its hideous. It begs the question WHY ? - and the answer is not "because you can".

Regards,

[Third_Rail]

I hate when that happens to a working revolver... it turns it into a paperweight for all practical purposes.

Makes a boy sad. :(

[4v50 Gary]

For $40K I expect a lot of engraving consisting of acanthus leaves (or oak leaves), c-scrolls, s-scrolls around relief carved images as well as gold inlays and a "little" bit of wire inlay to help accent the key features. I've seen better from the black powder crowd.

Still, if they let me have it for $1k, I wouldn't refuse. Figure that the Diamondback alone is $500 and so it's worth it for that much.:p

[asa]

It's almost like a bad joke; some anti's at the wine and cheese tasting decided to use their computer graphics skills to desecrate a picture of one of those "nasty" handguns. Must have been a real hand-wringer finding someone with a decent photo to use.