The best part (and why time travel would be so nice)? The price: £4 10s, with 'all-over' plating only another 10s.
Even with today's exchange rate, that's a pretty good price: nine bucks.
This gun is the same as the 1902 Colt Alaskan (see photo below) in .45 Long Colt.
Rico found one on Auction Arms for $1900.
You'd have to sell a lot of them to pay for a time machine, but it'd be worth it...
The catalog has a lot of other things at reasonable prices, too: the 1892 Army & Navy for £4, and the famous Colt Single Action Army of 1873 for £4, and (best of all) the Colt Lightning Magazine Rifle (for which Rico recently paid several hundred dollars) in .32, .38, or .44 calibers for £5 10s (the modern equivalent of $10.50).



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