| DUKE'S HIGH PRICED PISTOL AND RIFLE |
| ABOVE DUKE'S PISTOL THAT SOLD FOR $95,000 AT AUCTION A FEW YEARS AGO ! DUKE CUSTOMIZED THE CATALIN GRIPS TO FIT HIS LARGE HAND AND DUKE SOAKED THE GRIPS IN STRONG TEA TO GET THE ANTIQUE COLOR THAT HE WANTED. ======================================= If you look on the right of the Picture you can see a Few of the Movie Blank Cartridges, and in the Gun Belt on the left you can see the Dummy Movie Cartridges that you see in the Films with the Spent Primers. |
| THE "STAGECOACH RIFLE" WITH A 15 AND 1/2" BARREL AND HAD TO HAVE A FED. BATF TRANSFER FEE AS A SHORT BARRELED RIFLE, BROUGHT $113,000 AT AUCTION JUST LAST SUMMER AND IS NOW IN A PRIVATE COLLECTION ! =========================================== BACK IN THE 1800S, A COLT S.A.A. ARMY COST $12.95 BRAND NEW, AND THE WINCHESTER MOD. 1892 .32-40 COST $18.95 BRAND NEW. BOY HAVE THINGS CHANGED, I THINK YOU WOULD CALL THIS INFLATION !!! |
| OLD PICTURE OF DUKE IN HIS DEN AT NEWPORT BEACH WITH THE PISTOL WITH THE 5 AND 1/2" BARREL THAT I NOW HAVE AT "WILD WEST JUNCTION MUSEUM" |