A Colt Walker?....

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The guys selling says its mostly colt parts ie cyilinder a Walker and other parts original ,I was very suprised to see a Colt Walker in the UK my thoughts were italian 1960s repo ?
 
!! It's tough to rule out original Colt parts from that photo, but to my eye the whole thing looks like a reproduction that's been antiqued and probably defarbed. The originals are beyond rare. The burden of proof is on him, and just from the look of his tattered old cabinet filled with beat up flinters and caplocks I'd say he's a long way from proving it. Two thousand pounds is borderline fraud unless he can establish provenance, ie a letter from Colt or photo of that piece in a published source.
 
Beware of anyone selling a "Real" Walker!!!

With a total of only around 1,100 ever being made and a failure rate that in todays world would cause them to all be recalled, the likelyhood of ever getting to touch a real one let alone buy one is slim. To those who have actually touched one and have the pics to prove it, congratulations, what a wonderful piece of history to hold in your hands. I used to know the curator at the Cody Firearms Museum and even then I could get no closer than looking through glass at something that rare.
 
I believe the Walker had the wedge enter the frame from the right side,& the Dragoon wedge entered from the the left side. I see the wedge enters from the right on the one in question, but it just doesn't look right to me. I can't explain further!!!

I vote for a repro.

Guns are fun!!
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As I said, It has a Dragoon Cylinder. (rectangular stops with lead ramps and shorter in length) The frame could be walker or dragoon shortened. The barrel a walker.

Repo parts or not can't be said from the photo. Probably we could guess the barrel would be.
 
TheRodDoc said:
As I said, It has a Dragoon Cylinder. (rectangular stops with lead ramps and shorter in length)
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Maybe it's the cynic in me and I just feel that it's human nature to be lazy (myself included) but I'm inclined to think that whatever is the most obvious solution is usually the the correct solution, even though my wife says I over build things. For the sake of discussion:

The cylinder stops. It's quite possible that my old eyes just can't make it out but I'm not seeing Dragoon style stops, nor am I picking up any lead ramps. They might be there but they aren't jumping out at me. On the other hand, the cylinder does appear to be shorter but the obvious conclusion that I'm drawn to on that is of course that the frame never had anything to do Sam Colt but rather someone who's last name ended in a vowel.

Although Dragoons were far more popular (and better guns :neener:), the likelihood that somebody would find a modified one with a repro Walker barrel here in the USA let alone across the pond almost defies logic wouldn't you say?

Here again this point is rendered moot simply because we're only making excuses to tap keys for the sake of seeing our own words splashed out across the internet (again, myself included). It is indeed interesting to test ourselves on our supposed expertise regarding the guns which we find to be so historically important but alas none of us will never really know the provenance of this or very few other weapons unless they were handed down by our ancestors.
 
I went back and squinted some more at the blurry photo and what look like leades on the cylinder stops look to me like the metal is scored from the bolt coming up and striking the cylinder before dropping into the stop. There's no shadowing like you can see in the stops (cutouts).
 
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