Originally Posted by opoefc

Twaits, That picture is the gun. I took it all apart before the auction and all numbers match, except the grips did not have a number that I could see. It was probably penciled on the back of the right grip panel at one time, but has faded, or perhaps the factory put on new grips when they did the inscription engraving. Both Frank James and Bob Ford were known to have sold off various guns after Jesse's death, each claiming "this is the gun that put poor Jesse in his grave!" One midwestern museum exhibited a Colt revolver for some years as "the gun" until a collector pointed out that the gun's serial number indicated it was made 5 years after Jesse was killed. Ed.