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This one, here in England and bought a while back for £150, is also quite interesting...
But THIS one is totally inexplicable...................I last posted it back of last year.
Record price for rare Colt found during clear-out
By Will Bennett, Art Sales Correspondent
12:01AM BST 25 Jul 2002
A rare Colt revolver found in an elderly woman's home when her possessions were being removed after she died fetched a record £222,250 at a Bonhams auction in London yesterday.
The 1840 Colt Paterson percussion revolver, which had been expected to fetch up to £120,000, sold for more than four times the value of the woman's terrace house in an unnamed town in south-west Scotland.
David Williams, Bonhams's arms consultant, recognised the beautifully engraved piece as one of only a handful of the Number 2 Belt Model Colt to have survived.
"It was amazing to see such a rare American revolver of this type come in for sale out of the blue," said Mr Williams.
Yesterday's price was the highest ever paid for any firearm in Europe. The Colt was bought by an anonymous bidder in the saleroom. How the woman acquired the revolver remains a mystery.
But THIS one is totally inexplicable...................I last posted it back of last year.
Record price for rare Colt found during clear-out
By Will Bennett, Art Sales Correspondent
12:01AM BST 25 Jul 2002
A rare Colt revolver found in an elderly woman's home when her possessions were being removed after she died fetched a record £222,250 at a Bonhams auction in London yesterday.
The 1840 Colt Paterson percussion revolver, which had been expected to fetch up to £120,000, sold for more than four times the value of the woman's terrace house in an unnamed town in south-west Scotland.
David Williams, Bonhams's arms consultant, recognised the beautifully engraved piece as one of only a handful of the Number 2 Belt Model Colt to have survived.
"It was amazing to see such a rare American revolver of this type come in for sale out of the blue," said Mr Williams.
Yesterday's price was the highest ever paid for any firearm in Europe. The Colt was bought by an anonymous bidder in the saleroom. How the woman acquired the revolver remains a mystery.