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Buntline Holster and Grips from Tombstone, Arizona [140386]

Currency:USD Category:Firearms & Military Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:800.00 - 1,600.00 USD
Buntline Holster and Grips from Tombstone, Arizona [140386]
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425.00USD+ (93.50) buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2021 Dec 17 @ 17:55UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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This well used holster appears to have been made for a medium framed revolver with a Buntline length barrel. The holster is professionally made with a liner to prevent wear to the cylinder, but no maker's mark is visible. C.1880-1890's. There is a cross flap and stud in the front, two straps without buckles on the back where the holster may have been designed to be carried on a saddle. Overall length is 22 in. which looks as though it could handle up to a 16 in barrel. Some thread loss, leather weave stitch repair. Providence from the Shirley Bovis Tombstone Museum.
It would be difficult to place the ownership of this holster. No known firearms manufacturer of the period made "Buntline Specials" except Colt Firearms; at sixteen total. Author Edward Zane Judson, AKA Ned Buntline, a dime-novel writer and ner-do-gooder, commissioned five such guns built for five lawmen: Wyatt Earp, Charles Bassett, Bat Masterson, Bill Tilghman, and Neal Brown. Of these five men, only two made the move from Dodge City to Tombstone: Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson. Earp's Buntline was reported to be his favorite gun and could point it as quick as his back-up Colt. History has it; Wyatt gave this Colt Buntline to his business partner Charlie Housie in 1901 while in Nome, Alaska. It would seem practical that the holster went with the gun, but maybe not. If you have THE gun, then you need THIS holster. The grips are two piece bone, well patinated, again from a medium framed revolver. A split on one side and some loss of material on the other side; with retaining screw.

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State: Arizona
City: Tombstone
Provenance: Shirley Bovis 1881 Cowboy Museum in Tombstone