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I am in the Percussion Era, though, and the Dragoons are a little bit more in my price range. For an authentic Dragoon, you’re probably talking about $5,000.

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With commemoratives, some collectors like them because they want a mint gun in the box and they are certainly not going to run a round through it. They become valuable because Colt just doesn’t make these guns anymore.

I prefer the older stuff that I can cock, though, guns that I can oil and take care of short of firing a round through them.

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Colt collecting is like the Cadillac of gun collecting, the ultimate. Colt and Winchester. Not that some of the other guns aren’t reaching peaks on rarity and getting up there like Colt. But Colt and Winchester are still the top of the line of collecting, and it seems like everybody wants a Colt or a Winchester. Take Winchester. The old line company is gone now. The manufacturing factory is closed. They’re no longer in business. If that happens to Colt, everybody is going to want a piece of the history of Colt and prices for Colt guns are going to go through the roof.