Sometime back in the mid-1980s, I went to a general auction in Midland TX. One item that came up was a big relic-condition C&B revolver, missing stocks. I didn't get a chance to examine it closely before it came up but I was pretty sure of what it was. I went ahead and bid on it and got it for, as I remember, around $200. It was a real Colt Walker and the markings were still legible. Got a fairly nice condition trapdoor Springfield at the same auction for not much more than that, and a fairly roachy Winchester 73 rifle in .32-20 with the bore rusted out. I sold the Walker a couple of years later for around $1500 at the Fort Worth gun show. I thought that was OK for a rusty relic, but I sort of wished I had kept it. Would probably be worth a lot more than $1500 today. I sold the 73 at a San Antonio gun show for about double what I paid. I still have the trapdoor Springfield.