You are killing me! I belive its 50/50 that it was this exact colt new frontier 5 1/2" .45 colt I used to own! Here is the story. I have posted it here maybe a dozzen times before.:
Audy ordered a consecitively # erd matched pair in 1965. They were delivered to wolfram leather company in monrovia california. They were serial #s 5355NF (mine) and 5356NF. He willed them to his two sons.
OT: Did you know he had something to do with getting greatwestern company going along with Hy Hunter the founder?
After he died one son sold #5356NF to george garton who wrote the book "Post war colt single actions". The other son just took his to a pawn shop in reseda california. He didnt tell them just who he was in regards to that being his famous dads gun! They put it out and I bought it for the going value at the time! ($250s).
I shot it a few times. Then I bought the book. Checked my number, (could have been up or down). I called the publisher and got gartons phone #. Called garton, and he said he owned the mate and wanted to buy mine, I wouldnt sell. I got a colt letter confirming both guns were shipped together. In the book garton said the featured gun was owned by a gentilman who wished to be unamed. (Him). He had his notorised by the son, and got a colt letter that it also was shipped as a matched pair to wolfram leather company.
I was single when I bought the gun and found this out I made it a safe queen. I got married and hit the gun show circut selling guns with my wife raiseing money for down payment on a house. I never meant to sell that gun! She got in a affair with her now husband. He was the goffer who set up shows for a big gun show promoter back then. She and my then 6 year daughter ran off with him and many guns of mine! (That colt amoungst them). Long story short, I couldnt even say the guns were hot as the divorice wasnt final when I reported them stolen! By the time the divorice was final, I didnt press charges as I didnt want to hurt our daughter, plus she denys stealing the guns to this day even though only her and I had the safe combo. The guns paid for the business they own today! This all has been since 2 weeks before christmass 1985. Meaning it was like right exactly now!! December has always been a unhappy month for me. I in the last 40+ years unbeliveably have buried 4 ex girl friends in december! 3 years ago, december 13 th, was the day I had my nose removed due to cancer. Bah! Humbug!
