01 September 2008

Too bad time travel is one-way

Rico is in possession of a reprint of a price list from the Colt's Patent Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, circa October of 1896, printed originally by the London office of the company. On the cover is the then-newest Colt, the 'Double Action Government Army Revolver', as "supplied to Her Majesty's War Department" (and doesn't that phrase have a delightfully antique ring to it?), with a six-inch barrel, in Government .455, .450 English, and .476 calibers, along with the US .45 Long Colt and .44-40 cartridges. "Any length barrel may be made to order."
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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