Description
Item Description
Bryant Ridge Auction Company is pleased to present this double-action revolver today for a penny start auction, this is the Colt Python!
This Colt features the Rare“Coltguard” Electroless Nickel finish!
According to the included factory letter, this Colt Python was shipped to Edward Lee House Texas Gun Shop at 600 North Glenville Drive in Richardson, Texas on February 26, 1980. There was a total of 100 guns in this shipment.
This Colt features the Rare“Coltguard” Electroless Nickel finish!
According to the included factory letter, this Colt Python was shipped to Edward Lee House Texas Gun Shop at 600 North Glenville Drive in Richardson, Texas on February 26, 1980. There was a total of 100 guns in this shipment.
SPECIFICATIONS:
Manufacturer: Colt
Model: Python
Serial: V86692
Date of Manufacture: 1979
Caliber: .357 Magnum
Finish: Electroless Nickel
Barrel Length: 4"
Optics/Sights: Pinned Serrated Ramp Blade Front / Adjustable Rear
Stock/Grips: Checkered Wood w/ Inlaid Colt Medallions
Action: Double
Markings: Standard
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
The Colt Python is a .357 Magnum caliber revolver manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut. It was first introduced in 1955, the same year as Smith & Wesson's M29 .44 Magnum. Demands were made for other finishes beside Royal Blue, so over the years Colt offered the Python in Bright Nickel, satin electroless nickel known as "Coltguard", and in the early 1980's in satin stainless steel and in bright mirror polished stainless steel, variously known as Bright Polish or Ultimate Polish.
Model: Python
Serial: V86692
Date of Manufacture: 1979
Caliber: .357 Magnum
Finish: Electroless Nickel
Barrel Length: 4"
Optics/Sights: Pinned Serrated Ramp Blade Front / Adjustable Rear
Stock/Grips: Checkered Wood w/ Inlaid Colt Medallions
Action: Double
Markings: Standard
Bryant Ridge's Analysis:
The Colt Python is a .357 Magnum caliber revolver manufactured by Colt's Manufacturing Company of Hartford, Connecticut. It was first introduced in 1955, the same year as Smith & Wesson's M29 .44 Magnum. Demands were made for other finishes beside Royal Blue, so over the years Colt offered the Python in Bright Nickel, satin electroless nickel known as "Coltguard", and in the early 1980's in satin stainless steel and in bright mirror polished stainless steel, variously known as Bright Polish or Ultimate Polish.
Back in the late 1970's & early '80s there was a gunsmith named Ed House in Richardson Texas - suburb of Dallas - that developed a plating process he called "NiTex". NiTex gave a light satin finish like a modern Stainless gun with a light bead finish on it like maybe a late model Ruger 77Mk II CF All Weather, and survived saltwater tests better than anything on the market. He would strip a gun, or any mechanical item, to its basic metal components and then coat it in a set of bluing tanks with a proprietary nickel compound and charge the tank electrically to make the compound bond to every nook & cranny inside and out...it filled in or softened damaged spots or grind marks and was as slick or slicker as high-grade Chrome Moly steel in barrel rifling. Colt later gave him a contract to produce the finish on factory new guns and marketed it as "ColtGuard" for a number of years...Ed made a fortune until Stainless guns became common and killed the demand.
Contents:
This gun will ship with the Colt case and Colt Factory Archives letter pictured above!
Return Policy:
We gladly offer a 3 day unfired inspection policy from the time that the firearm is delivered to your FFL. Refunds are available for all qualifying orders.
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