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  • RICK: Hey.

  • How can I help you?

  • I'd like to try and sell this Colt revolver.

  • [MUSIC PLAYING]

  • RICK: This is cool.

  • Do you know much about it?

  • PAUL: I know it's an old piece--

  • I want to say 1800s.

  • This is a very early Colt Single Action Army.

  • This is-- this is 1870s, and everyone wanted them.

  • And they also had the world's greatest advertising campaign--

  • God made all men, and Colt made them all equal.

  • The Colt Single Action Army, really, was

  • just incredibly revolutionary.

  • I mean, this was the most high-tech thing

  • around in the 1870s.

  • Before this, it was--

  • you've seen the old movies, them, you know,

  • packing the guns with gunpowder and putting a ball in.

  • This-- this had cartridges.

  • This was super accurate.

  • This had interchangeable parts.

  • This shot straight.

  • It didn't break.

  • I mean, it was just a high-quality gun.

  • And this is an incredible set of grips.

  • You have a federal eagle here.

  • You have the shield, the lances.

  • These were twice as much money as any other comparable gun

  • to them.

  • This is the dream gun of every Colt collector.

  • If you have ever seen a Western, you've seen this gun.

  • I want this thing.

  • I want this thing.

  • I want this thing.

  • But I have to make sure everything checks out.

  • So where did you get this thing?

  • PAUL: I'm a bail bondsman, and somebody

  • put it up for collateral.

  • And they never paid off the bond, so they surrendered it.

  • This is an appraisal on it.

  • I took it in for $25,000.

  • That's what they owe.

  • That's what I'd like to get.

  • OK.

  • Um-- and they're saying an obvious factory

  • reversal of the numbers.

  • It's often the case with arms engraved and nickeled.

  • So you want 25,000 for this?

  • Yeah.

  • RICK: Do you mind if I have someone

  • take a look at this thing?

  • I mean, I just have a lot of questions on the gun.

  • I mean, it's really weird that you have two serial numbers

  • on the gun, but if everything checks out,

  • maybe we can make a deal.

  • PAUL: Great.

  • OK.

  • Hang on five minutes.

  • I'll get him down here, and we'll go from there.

  • OK.

  • RICK: (SINGING) Ah.

  • Wow.

  • It's a pretty neat gun.

  • My big fear with things like this

  • is, usually, when it's too good to be true,

  • it's too good to be true.

  • What do you think?

  • I mean, at first look, it's--

  • it's gorgeous.

  • What's really nice about this is this is a known pistol.

  • This has been in two books, and one of them is the Colt Bible.

  • So it's a Single Action Army, seven and a half inch barrel,

  • which was the standard cavalry length.

  • The Single Action Army changed everything.

  • I mean, this is the gun that won the West--

  • also known as the Peacemaker, the Colt .45.

  • I mean, this started it all.

  • RICK: Cool.

  • ALEX: The grips are the thing that makes everybody go wow.

  • You see this here, this high relief?

  • These are Civil War scenes.

  • Colt didn't make that grip.

  • There was a retailer-- the largest retailer

  • of firearms in the United States was

  • Schuyler, Hartley, and Graham.

  • This style grip is extremely rare.

  • You see it more on older pistols-- percussion pistols.

  • But on a Single Action Army, this grip is--

  • these are hen's teeth.

  • RICK: All right.

  • But there's some, really, weirdness

  • with the serial numbers.

  • ALEX: Most Colt collectors go, I want

  • all matching serial numbers.

  • But I think it's a pretty fair assessment to say,

  • look, these were hand-stamped.

  • They were making them--

  • thousands-- and shipping them out.

  • And that could just be a simple mistake.

  • It could drive the value down a bit,

  • but there's so much right about this beautiful gun

  • that, you know, for me, I would still want it.

  • RICK: So we have an 1876, really fancy Colt.

  • You got a piece of magic here.

  • RICK: OK.

  • So what is this piece of magic worth?

  • ALEX: [SIGHS]

  • I would say that, at auction, I would safely guess that this

  • would sell for $35,000.

  • If it went above $50,000, it wouldn't really surprise me.

  • Wow.

  • I was thinking it was going to be a little bit less than that,

  • but I'm not surprised.

  • I mean, it's a beautiful piece.

  • [SIGHS].

  • OK.

  • Well, thanks, man. ALEX: You are welcome.

  • Appreciate it. ALEX: OK.

  • Thank you.

  • ALEX: This gun is an excellent buy for the shop.

  • The model is known as the Peacemaker,

  • but if Rick can get a good deal, it'll

  • be known as the money maker.

  • All right.

  • So $25,000-- no problem.

  • [DRAMATIC WESTERN MUSIC]

  • I mean, what's your best price?

  • You give me $40,000, I walk out the door.

  • No.

  • At $40,000, you're walking out the door with the gun.

  • PAUL: Even though you can sell this for $55,000, $60,000 here?

  • No, no, no.

  • He says maybe.

  • $35,000.

  • I'll go $26,000.

  • $27,500, gun's yours.

  • We got a deal.

  • Great.

  • I'll meet you right over there.

  • PAUL: Honey, pack your bags.

  • Because I'm taking this $27,500, and I'm

  • going to take the whole family on vacation.

RICK: Hey.

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