Rare “Thumb Print” Colt Walker coming up for auction: $700,000
Rock Island Auction Company is having their annual Premiere Firearms Auction May 2-4 in Illinois. The company moves thousands of guns a year but this auction is reserved for their “magnificent, diverse, and investment grade firearms. Among the 2800 items up for the gavel are a Fitz Colt owned by Clyde of Bonnie and Clyde, an extremely rare Smith-Condit prototype semi-automatic rifle, probably the nicest 1898 Schwarzlose I’ve ever seen, and a functional US Army Gatling Gun (with carriage).
However, perhaps the nicest of the lot is the revolver that could be a piece of living history– the Thumbprint Walker.
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