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Colt SAA revolver, .45 cal., 4-3/4” barrel, blue finish, checkered hard rubber Colt eagle grips, #11
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Category:Antiques / Firearms & Armory
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Estimated At:10,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD
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This item SOLD at 2010 Feb 24 @ 12:16UTC-08:00 : PST/AKDT
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Colt SAA revolver, .45 cal., 4-3/4” barrel, blue finish, checkered hard rubber Colt eagle grips, #118933 with documentation indicating provenance to Western Outlaw Ben Kilpatrick, known as “The Tall Texan”. This gun is in overall good condition showing a dark patina on metal surfaces with scattered moderate areas of erosion and pitting from exposure to moisture; the bore and action are good, the grips are worn but complete and have four old notches carved at the bottom of the left grip and the name “Ben” scratched on the bottom of the right grip. Documentation accompanying this Single Action includes a signed and notarized affidavit by William R. Schneider, dated January 3, 1974, stating “This is to certify that the Ben Kilpatrick Colt’s revolver which I delivered to you was brought for repair to my old friend Frank Ford in the eighteen nineties. Ford was then in charge of the Simmons Hardware Co. gun department in St. Louis, Missouri. Frank Ford told me shortly before his death that when Kilpartrick brought the gun to him for repair, Kilpartrick was then known as a train and bank robber and as the leader of the Derby Hat gang. Mr. Ford said that after he learned of Kilpatrick’s death, he, Ford, appropriated the gun. Then many years later Mr. Ford presented it to me, William R. Schneider. I was then a St. Louis Missouri lawyer and writer of legal reference volumes, now a resident of Santee, California”. Schneider consigned the gun to Sotheby Parke Bernet in Los Angeles to auction on February 13, 1974 where it was Lot 306 on page 132 of their sale #107 catalog. Also included is a letter from Schneider to a Dr. Robert M. Quay ( the successful bidder at the auction), indicating the corrosion on the gun was due to Schneider’s wife storing the gun in a bathroom drawer where a slight leak for several months caused the damage and verifying the gun sold at auction was the one he consigned. Dr. Quay also sent for a Colt factory letter, dated March 4, 1977 confirming all features except type of stocks “Not listed”; the gun was shipped to Alford & Berkele Co., New York, NY on January 21, 1887 in a shipment of 50 guns. Kilpatrick was born in Coleman County, Texas in 1874. He worked as a cowboy in Texas, Utah and Wyoming where he became involved with Butch Cassidy and the Wild Bunch Gang, hiding out at the Robber’s Roost after heists. While Cassidy was serving time in prison, Ben also rode with the “Black” Jack Ketchum gang. Kilpatrick participated in numerous train robberies until December 12, 1901 when he was captured in Knoxville, Tennessee and sentenced to prison for fifteen years. Upon his release in June, 1911, he returned to a life of crime and was subsequently killed on March 12th, 1912 while trying to rob a train near Sanderson, Texas. Est.: $10,000-$20,000.
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