"Canadian Province Edition" Colt Python?

thanks for all the info and the pics.
i must admit like most im not one for commemorative guns and fancy art work on them but wow is that a damn nice looking gun!
the pedigree on it is fantastic too!

wouldn't it be neat to get a picture of each of the 12 of them and have them together in a sticked post for future people to drool over.

do we even know if any of the other 11 are in Canada?
 
thanks for all the info and the pics.
i must admit like most im not one for commemorative guns and fancy art work on them but wow is that a damn nice looking gun!
the pedigree on it is fantastic too!

wouldn't it be neat to get a picture of each of the 12 of them and have them together in a sticked post for future people to drool over.

do we even know if any of the other 11 are in Canada?

Apparently the NWT and PEI are in Germany (if I remember correctly, this is info from discussion with Guerney Brown), so they would be proof marked...and there are still some in the USA, but can't remember which. I also heard a disturbing report that the Quebec gun might have been destroyed, but have no firm information on that. I have been led to believe that the Nova Scotia gun was part of the same collection that the recently sold NB was part of, and that it might also come up for sale...again not substantiated but I believe from a reliable source. For sure they will never all be together again, in one collection, because of the ban(s) on ivory.
 
how did the Quebec one come about getting destroyed?
or what is the rumor about it?
which 2 went to Germany?

I believe it was NWT and PEI in Germany. As for the Quebec gun, (and I sincerely hope I was very misinformed), I was told that it was destroyed after the owner used it on himself. Probably shouldn't even be floating that out there, I'm generally not one to forward things I don't know for sure....so, hopefully it isn't true.
 
I believe it was NWT and PEI in Germany. As for the Quebec gun, (and I sincerely hope I was very misinformed), I was told that it was destroyed after the owner used it on himself. Probably shouldn't even be floating that out there, I'm generally not one to forward things I don't know for sure....so, hopefully it isn't true.

If true it's a sad end to both the owner and Revolver.
 
I looked at the picture of the Smith Wesson, and it is nice, but for some reason, it does not turn my crank like the colts do
The singer is nice ,reminds me how stupid I was years ago when I passed on a real nice singer at a auction at about 350.oo because I already had bought 4 colts, that are still cheap today.
I heard form someone that 1911 singer is still in the area.
 
I looked at the picture of the Smith Wesson, and it is nice, but for some reason, it does not turn my crank like the colts do
The singer is nice ,reminds me how stupid I was years ago when I passed on a real nice singer at a auction at about 350.oo because I already had bought 4 colts, that are still cheap today.
I heard form someone that 1911 singer is still in the area.

Yes, I thought that as well. Maybe it's because the engraving (and especially the gold inlay) doesn't stand out as well on the stainless?
 
I checked my legers, the ones I still have and see E serials, but there is also V serial pythons, any difference, Cat or H.C. should know
 
It does make one yearn for the good old days when most Canadians saw Firearms as an everyday tool or something to admire and collect.

Provincial pistols, CN/CP commemorative rifles, even the RCMP had commemorative rifles made in the '70's for their 100th anniversary......however I'm not holding my breath to see if they approach Colt Canada for a 150th anniversary commemorative rifle. Maybe one day the pendulum will swing back.....
 
I checked my legers, the ones I still have and see E serials, but there is also V serial pythons, any difference, Cat or H.C. should know

I re-read the Python section in my "Standard Catalog of Colt Firearms" and the coltfever.com website (usually a good source of info). I doesn't appear that Colt did much in the way of updates or production changes to the Python over it's run other than cosmetic ones. No sign of the kind of changes S&W did resulting in -1,-2,-3 etc versions of their various models.

In fairness though, the Colt catalog seems quite a bit less detailed than my Smith&Wesson Standard Catalog so.......
 
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