Quote Originally Posted by buffalobo View Post
It was worth whatever price they paid for it.

Glenwood Springs Frontier Museum is on the list to visit.

Well, maybe not. It now appears that the Utah gun dealer may have perpetuated a fraud in 1968, and that he may have been in the business of falsifying documents to sell guns he claimed to be owned by other celebrity old west characters besides the Doc Holliday derringer.

Remember, western movies and TV were very popular in the 1950's and 1960's, and there was a big market for guns of old west, whether original or reproductions. Most every kid had a Fanner 50 pistol and holster set, and a lever action Winchester just like Chuck Conners used in The Rifleman.

I heard about this last week and the Glenwood paper has now published more on the Doc Holliday derringer story. Seems the first red flag was the engraving itself, they just didn't do that back in the days of Doc Holliday. If a gun from that era is engraved it is almost certainly a fake.

Still, it's a good story, and if the museum is unable to get the money back from the Canadian seller, the derringer might go on display anyway as the real fake Doc Holliday derringer as a story of the fraud common in the world of antique firearms.


http://www.postindependent.com/news/...-gun-in-doubt/