Wow! If only he'd been able to hang on to all of these! Today, I ran across this 1961 photo of my late father's gun collection. I've seen it many times over the years and (prior to his passing) listened to his tale of having to sell so many of the "good" guns he had to pay for the lawyers during the divorce my parents went through in the 1970's. I inherited the 1918 vintage Springfield .45 ACP 1911 pistol, but all the Colt SAAs and Lighting revolvers were "in the wind" long before his passing.

Pretty nice collection for its day!

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Pretty nice collection for its day!

Nice collection for any days.

Cool pic!

Big Colt fan, your Dad. Cool collection.

Anyone notice that Fitz Special right above the colt woodsman?

Very cool!!!

Looks like 2 Lightnings, 2 Bisleys and to the far left, 3 1849s. He liked his Colts.

Not to mention the Lightning Rifle! You sure don't see one of those everyday!

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Originally posted by pbramlett:
Anyone notice that Fitz Special right above the colt woodsman?

I believe you are right! Good eye.

Good eye pbramlett, I was about to remark on the Detective Special until you posted that. That's a seriously cool collection right there.

WOW!!!

So much awesome in that pic.

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Originally posted by sigfreund:

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Originally posted by pbramlett:
Anyone notice that Fitz Special right above the colt woodsman?

I believe you are right! Good eye.

You guys are right on! I never noticed it before and (knowing my Dad) it was probably the real deal!

Here's my pic of the 1911 (depicted in the above photo too), that was left to me. It was built by Springfield Armory in 1918 and had been issued to a neighbor/friend of my father's, who'd served in WWI as a Captain in the Medical Corps.

Your father had taste. That's a fine collection, there. A shame you didn't get ahold of more of it.