Famous guns auctioned off.

Even if I was rich I would never spend the money some stuff goes for or what there asking, even if the famous person that used it handed it to me personally. Papers mean nothing to me, if they can authenticate it can be faked. There rarely seems to ever be just one gun, they had all kinds for different scenes and what not.

I've got a bunch of stuff from a few famous movies and I would never sell them, even have 2 milk creates full of movie Scripps.

Don't you mean famous people's guns instead of "famous guns"?

I sure as hell wouldn't call actors "famous people" either.

I'd be more interested in historic firearms, such as the one that caused billions in damage and millions of lives lost with just one shot, the 1910 Browning of Gavrilo Princip which started WW I. Who says .380's aren't powerful?

Any one of Churchill's three beloved C-96 Mausers would be another.

Speedo66 said:

I'd be more interested in historic firearms, such as the one that caused billions in damage and millions of lives lost with just one shot, the 1910 Browning of Gavrilo Princip which started WW I. Who says .380's aren't powerful?

Any one of Churchill's three beloved C-96 Mausers would be another.

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The Thompson in this famous picture would certainly be one of my dream guns...



Stay safe...

Never seen that pic in color before...

Indy's pistol went up for auction a year or two ago for about the same asking price as this time. Dont know if it ever sold or not.

Riomouse911 said:

The Thompson in this famous picture would certainly be one of my dream guns...

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What's funny is, take away the hat and with that pinstripe suit, cigar, and gun he could pass for a 20's Chicago mobster.

Elmer Kieth's collection was auctioned off

Re: that colorized picture

The sky is never that blue in England !

Ill take one of bonnie and clyde's BARs.

I had an opportunity to buy a revolver that was used in the movie Little Big Man. I passed.

Wasn't Churchill also known to be a big fan of the 1911? Thought I'd read that somewhere.

I don't think I'd want a gun used for anything infamous. Not familiar with any specific model, but maybe one of Roosevelt's Safari rifles. Think it was an 1895 in .405...

Here's a link to the auction for the shotgun that killed Curly Bill.
Not the one used in the movie Tombstone, the actual one that Wyatt Earp shot him with.

It sold for $375,000.

https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/w...-sell-at-heritage-auctions-in-dallas/2298159/

There's a timeline for these weapons, or at least most of them.

There's a good chance that in fifty years, folks would ask 'Wyatt who?', rather than bid on the gun he used. All collectibles have an arc, where folks of an age to be interested in them get wealthy enough to indulge in collecting, then begin to die off.

Larry

Pin Stripes and gangsters? Frank Nitti also smoked an occasional cigar.


"What's funny is, take away the hat and with that pinstripe suit, cigar, and gun he could pass for a 20's Chicago mobster."

I want Danny Vermin's 88 magnum. "They made it for him special, it shoots through schools!"

1984 was a time when that was allowed to be funny.



Todd.

Meeks36 said:

Ill take one of bonnie and clyde's BARs.

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I believe there is a display of some of B&C’s armament at the Fort Worth PD academy. I had a picture of it... but it was on an old phone that I no longer have.

Many of the guns used by the authorities to end their murderous spree are housed at the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco. .

Stay safe.

Speedo66 said:

What's funny is, take away the hat and with that pinstripe suit, cigar, and gun he could pass for a 20's Chicago mobster.

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I recall my WWII history readings saying the Nazis tried to use that picture as propaganda insinuating that Churchill was a ruthless gangster dragging poor Englanders into a war of his own doing.

Instead it backfired, as it steeled the British resolve to resist the Nazis by showing their leader taking up arms against them .

https://www.famouspictures.org/churchill-and-the-tommy-gun/

I’d sure like to see an image of our country’s leadership doing something with sporting arms other that using one as a prop while trying to take away our right to own, shoot and enjoy them.

Stay safe.

Riomouse911 said:

I believe there is a display of some of B&C’s armament at the Fort Worth PD academy. I had a picture of it... but it was on an old phone that I no longer have.

Many of the guns used by the authorities to end their murderous spree are housed at the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco. .

Stay safe.

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If I ever find myself that way I will definitely stop by.

I really don't care about so called famous people. They all put their pants on one leg at a time and in some point in time die like the rest of us. A gun is a personal preference. If i like it i want it. I don't care who owned or touched it. Example, would you want a gun that Micheal Jackson touched and brag about it?

Cheer up @brutus51
Here's a link
https://www.wideners.com/blog/20th-century-gangster-guns/

I was pretty sure it's widely known that Dillinger favored the .38 Super, and I know from some of your posts it's one of your favorites.

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If I ever find myself that way I will definitely stop by.

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There's some at TX Ranger museum in Waco well worth a stop.

You probably won't see me at that auction.
When I by a gun a few questions run through my mind: Is it worth the price? Will I use and enjoy it? Is there sufficient demand for it in case I need to sell it? If the answer is "no" to any of those questions...no sale.
In this particular matter, the answer is "no" to all of my questions.