And a few more pics from the road trip…

Some early S&W revolvers, and yes the top oneย of those grips are Ivory. The others are Mother of Pearl. And engraved guns were NOT usual in the late 1800s…

The O.T. Nicholson guns are part of a large collection containing over 200 rifles, pistols and shotguns. Mr. Nicholson was a banker in Shamrock, TX, about 40 miles east of Amarillo. Born in 1880, he died in 1955.dsc01832 dsc01833 dsc01834 dsc01835

Three generations of Dragoons! ๐Ÿ™‚dsc01850 dsc01851

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You might call this one an early BBQ gun… ๐Ÿ™‚

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And a few more pics from the road trip… — 16 Comments

  1. Thank you for the pictures. The grips on that last Colt SAA remind me of Elmer Keith’s grips on his personal Model 29.

  2. Great pictures! Thanks for taking the time!
    One of my guys, when I was a First Sergeant, brought an old pistol that his mother had given him, and asked if I could identify it. I looked it over very carefully, and finally came up with “A Smith & Wesson No.1, in .22 Short.” He was pretty impressed (I’m a gun geek as well as an intel geek) and when I retired, he gave it to me. He said it needed to go to someone who knew what the hell it was!

    (And for the record, he’s now sitting in my chair in the First Sergeant’s office. Who said “no good deed goes unpunished”?)

  3. If there’s no .45 Short Colt, how did .45 Colt acquire the “Long”?

    My theory is it happened to distinguish it from the .45 S&W being issued for both the M1873 and Scofield.

  4. The one with the rifle stock looks kinda clumsy and complicated. Other than shooting competitions, what was it used for?

    • Learning to keep both hands behind the cylinder when you torch one off.

      There was a demand for a repeating carbine, and this was one solution. It didn’t work out well.

  5. j.r.- Lots of old Texas and Western guns have those steer head grips! ๐Ÿ™‚

    RS- Love it! ๐Ÿ™‚ And those little guns ARE little!!!

    McT- Interesting proposition… And probably right!

    gfa- Sadly, couldn’t ‘touch’ them or get really good pics because of the glass… Sigh…

  6. Thanks for taking the time to post the excellent photos. I enjoy antique handguns more than any other kind. Imagine, someone carried that pistol on a regular basis. As small as most of them are, the pistol could easily be carried in your pocket.

  7. CP/MJ- That was a gen 3 Dragoon, they did have some of them set up for shoulder firing (early version of revolving rifle) and MJ is right…

    Brig- You’re welcome!

    MJ- Other than the dragoons, which required a saddle holster, and the 2nd model .44 the S&Ws were pocket guns

  8. Hey Old NFO;

    I remembered reading when I was in middle school a book that talked about the Texas Rangers and they loved the Colt Dragoon and they would carry several of them and charge the Comanche’s with pistols blazing and the sheer number of rounds would unnerve the Indians.

  9. The pictures are very cool! Thank you!
    It’s fun to imagine everything they might have seen/been used for…”The stories they could tell” type of thing…
    especially when passed down through a family…was Dad better than the son? ๐Ÿ™‚

    Suz