As a veteran of 4-7 Cav, thank you for showing some of the gems from your friend’s collection, particularly the battlefield pickup from Little Big Horn.
Ok, I'm drooling so bad i choked lol One picky note Your weapons you handle with glove's Your friend's weapon's no You might not get invited back to lunch Lol 😆
Wow. I am a 67 yo long time collector who is the child of a wW2 veteran who was a career NCO and collector. That is the most diverse and beautiful collection of small Walthers that I have ever seen in one place by any collector or museum. In Germany in the 1960s I thought I had seen it all. The SAAs and the Colts were the the icing. What patina on the SAAs and what crisp blued autos. I have a private purchase Colt 455 that was bought in Oxford during WW1 and it has that same thick glint. You fellows have Made My Week. Many many thanks!!
THANKS for showing! I have already written this many times: old US pieces (like here those 1905 Colts) has the MOST beautiful blueing in the world! (And I say that without even being an American by any means).
I grew up in the area where Sitting Bull's Sioux Warriors went in SW Saskatchewan just after the Battle of Little Bighorn. There were Sharps Carbines and 7th Cav Saddles and Tack at the Fort Walsh National HIstoric Park Interpretive Centre. Years later someone found a US Cav Horse Stakeout Pin down there as well. Very interesting to see 7th Cav Colts in this collection.
That is a really nice collection. I love to learn about the history of Old guns and collectors and their stories really neat stuff. Please keep up the great work you’re doing. Thanks so much for the videos.
My father ended up with a plum colored revolver frame many moons ago but it was by accident when he wasn't paying attention to the temperature of a hot salt blueing bath.
O wow love plumbs and that modified colt had a very interesting bit of history thankyou to you and yr freind for showing us just a thought but maybe the hammer difference between the 1911s had something to do with tankers too the more rounded one looks like it wouldnt get caught on things as easly kind of like an enclosed hammer but not just a thought kpk was lovely too looked like it had a duralium frame as well ☺👍👍
In the colt collecting world plum color is frowned on. The plum color is from dirty and contaminated bluing salts. The solutions needed changed way overdue.... I use to think the plum came from different environments the gun has been put in over the decades. But simply isn't true.
In many of your videos, you refer to a few PPK's and PP's in 9mm. I imagine you're talking about 9mm kurz or .380, or were there a few 9x19's in those models? The un-initiated are confused.
Grandfather left me a 1939 ppk with replacement black grips. Have the original red ones also, I'm assuming my grandfather didn't want the swastika on there as I know that he used to carry it after the war. Its James Bonds gun. Timeless
Reminds me of the H&K P-7 refurbs that became plum colored after refurbishment. Same goes for my SVT-40 that got a plum-colored bolt after the Russians refurbished it. Can't say it's my favorite finish for any firearm.
Not one of those Walther's are military service weapons, unless the firearm is clearly marked or there is documentation to verify the authenticity of the weapon it's just another old gun.
In 1982 I had an opportunity to buy a 1940’s Walther PP (or PPK can’t remember) with the Eagle/“cross” grip. I didn’t have the $250 he wanted for it but I asked him to hold it for a week. He didn’t. I guess he need the cash.
I nearly bought a Walther once, but my father stopped me after he reminded me it would be a bit insulting to the memory of my Grandfather, what with the war etc. Apparently during WWII, my Grandfather had a succession of unreliable Walther's, which was embarrassing for a Gestapo officer.
"Grips... the GI's were grabbing them.. putting them in their duffle bags, and putting them on guns and taking them home" - that's your provenance?? YIKES.
Hi, Tom! I have an Nagant M1895 revolver (full rig) with some nice 'plumming' going on. I've also seen some really 'plummy' Vz. 50 pistols. What causes that?
