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I’ve collected many things over the years just because I was interested in them, and then got rid of them. But the .41s … I just kind of stayed with them.

So I would say that if you are going to collect anything, you first ought to go out and buy some books on the subject and read them. Now there aren’t going to be books on every possible Colt gun that you can collect, but there are some that will kind of help you along. One of them is the book Colt: An American Legend by R.L. Wilson that covers just about every gun Colt made up until the mid 1980s, and it’s a good book. But then again, if you were going to specialize in collecting the ’49 Pocket or the ‘51 Navy, you’d want to try to find a book specifically on them.

You know, just the accoutrements of black powder, they have a book on that and some people just collect that sort of thing. So it just depends on where your interest lies and finding the book on that. Of course they’re always writing new books and one of them may be in an interest you like. And if there isn’t a book in the particular area you want, you need to belong to the Colt Collector’s Association and get to know the people who have been doing this for a really long time and they will kind of help you out and help you get started with some ideas about what you should do and what you should look out for.