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Starting bid at only 500,000.00. Expected to get up to 3 million. Original article on Daily Mail I do have to say that it's a beautiful boss-level 1911 pistol that is tastefully done with actual shoot-ability improvements.    | ||
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Nice suppressor height sights.  Seriously though, what is up with those sights? Especially the rear one? _______________________________ The artist formerly known as AllenInWV | |||
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Remember, this was a much earlier time in the 1911 era (pre WW2). Capone was indicted in 1931 and had this pistol with him the entire time he was still the mob boss, so a very early version. I'd guess the rear is a sight off some other pistol and modified to fit and work on this 1911, so it's not going to be all perfect. Wasn't like there was a Wilson's Combat to order stuff from back then. Compared to the typical 1911 sights of the time, I bet they were a vast improvement in sight picture. Heck, maybe he did run a suppressor sometimes, he was a Mafia Boss after all. | |||
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Were these illegal in Chicago back then? Asking for a friend. | |||
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To me, that rear sight looks a lot like a "Micro" rear sight as was used on USGI NM pistols in the 1960's or so. I wonder if the sights on this pistol are period or if they were done much later? | |||
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From what is said on the auction site his son modified it for competition use. Probably S&W revolver or Eliason sight. | |||
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Not if he had a FOID card. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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So that isn’t actually in the form that Al Capone carried it as? I am far from a collector, not wired that way but it seems wouldn’t that be akin to refinishing Doc Holidays Colt in Cerakote Blue? I would think it would diminish the value a bunch. Taken further, did the son add the frontstrap checkering as well? I would be curious if anyone knew what configuration it was during Capone’s reign? | |||
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Sights look like those on my 1911 set up for service pistol competition. Rear appears to be a Bomar. "The world is too dangerous to live in-not because of the people who do evil, but because of the people who sit and let it happen." (Albert Einstein) | |||
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I guess it would be fun to be able to say that you had Al Capone's 1911. BUT NOT $3 million worth of fun! Rod "Do not approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or a fool from any direction." John Deacon, Author I asked myself if I was crazy, and we all said no. | |||
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'you can get more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.' Words to live by… ------------------ Eddie Our Founding Fathers were men who understood that the right thing is not necessarily the written thing. -kkina | |||
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