I just found this on a site I had to translate from Italian.
The second of these three Colt SAA is of particular importance because it bought expressly for himself, he was ordained by a letter which is still present in the archive of the Connecticut State Library, the letter is dated July 24...
Ive seen the one that they show with the letter and I believe it's a different Bat Masterson gun. The letter specifies a 4 3/4 in barrel with "gutta percha" hard rubber grips. The one Ive seen with the letter has Ivory grips if Im correct.
Bat Masterson ordered a total of eight .45 saa revolvers from Colt throughout the course of his career. One of the most discussed is the gun Masterson was said to have placed an order for, in his writing on Opera House Saloon stationairy in july of 1885. At the bottom of the letter it requests...
While researching 1rst gen Colt Saa revolvers i continually come across the 1967 commemorative, and the non firing Pietta replica, modeled after the gun Bat Masterson ordered from Colt in july, 1885. I've done a little research as to the order and there is a letter written to colt from Bat...
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