Fake or Real Walker?

[scrat]

Great now i hate you. lol

Id love to hold one

 

[Rifleman Harris]

I forgot. A Co. Number 53 as I remember. It was listed in the DGW catalog and I was told the provenance on it was impeccable.

I have a Walker sold as a Colt by Italians in NYC and it, along with the many other replicas I've seen don't look nearly so massive as the original. It would be interesting to do a side by side comparison.

 

[72coupe]

It is probably just the history and reverence you have for it that makes a real one seem larger.

 

[Rifleman Harris]

Maybe, but I wouldn't bet on it. I've seen three that were said to original, the one I wrote about, one in a collection at Texas A&M, and one at the Texas Ranger Museum in Waco. The castings on all of them look more massive than on the one I have.


Where it breaks down is that if the originals were in fact heavier, how can anyone use one of modern manufacture for a fake? Even so the question is there-at least for me.

 

[KodiakBeer]

I have an original Colt Walker that's been stamped "Uberti" to keep people from stealing it. I'll let it go for for $200,000, which is a steal considering that it looks almost new. I bought it from a guy named Lefty at the gun show. It's fully documented with a letter from some lady named Dolores, who got it from General Zachary Taylor's daughters cousins friends nephews neighbor who passed it down to Dolores who is Lefty's main squeeze.

 

[kBob]

Grabbed a Dixie catalog and yes A 53 is there on their list.

In their 2000 catalog Dixie listed 158 walkers and 20 "Transition Whitneyville-Hartford Dragoons"

A local writer asked me my opinion on his arming his main character with a Walker as a holster gun. WHen he did not hear "oh what a marvalous idea!" he tuned out the "its pretty big for a holster gun" and "well they were never that common" and "you're not serious about having him be something of a gunman?" What can I say? He sold his book anyway with the Walker on his fictional hero's side.

-kBob

 

[Hoof Hearted]

I have an original Colt Walker that's been stamped "Uberti" to keep people from stealing it. I'll let it go for for $200,000, which is a steal considering that it looks almost new. I bought it from a guy named Lefty at the gun show. It's fully documented with a letter from some lady named Dolores, who got it from General Zachary Taylor's daughters cousins friends nephews neighbor who passed it down to Dolores who is Lefty's main squeeze.

That's pretty damn funny..........