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ssilver
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My father Ed "Texie" Holle was a gunsmith for the Great Western Firearms. In the late 50's he used their machinery to make 6 of his own revolvers in .22 cal. The guns were all full size polished aluminum weighing about 2 lbs. each with no bbl. or cyl. sleevs. Some had the colt style fixed fireing pin others with the G W floating fireing pin. The guns have no mfg. markings in fact they may have NO markings at all. I have the first two he made & as I remember he did not put serial numbers on them untill required in 1968. I have been looking for the other 4 for some 40 years. He could have sold of traded them anywhere between California & Tennesee. Any help would be most appreciated.
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I wouldn't be surprised if some found their way to Hollywood.
Quick draw and fancy handling was a craze in those days, especially in Hollywood.
Anyway, could you please post some pics of your revolvers? It might help people identify the ones you're looking for.
Hollywood is a very real possibility, he knew many Hollywood types & did get involved in the movie industry. We actually lived on the western main street at the Corriganville movie ranch.
Yep, he's the same one. He was foreman at Corriganville Movie Ranch and did a couple of vocals with Smokey Rogers such as How Lonely Can You Get? and Goin' Down The Road
We'd really like to see your guns. This link will show you how to post pics:
http://forums.gunbroker.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=259294
Your memory is 100% workin on the pix. The guns will look exactly like a full size Colt with 4 3/4" bbls.
Are there any special markings or unique features that might possibly identify them? Someone may have one and not have a clue as to who made them.
Looking forward to the pics!
SSILVER - PLEASE NOTE: Threads in this forum are locked after 10 replies and we are now at 9 which is why I'm editing this posting. If it gets locked, just start a new one. Thanks!
Thanx again, be patient, I'm workin on it[:D]
Len
Thanx for all the interest. Last night I worked on getting pics. Having trouble, just bought this puter & camera. I got a pic. the darn thing and managed to send it in a email but posting to the site is going to take more study. I would be happy to email the pic to anyone interested, just give me an address.
Thanx again, be patient, I'm workin on it[:D]
Len
I posted the link above which will show you how to upload pics. You need to upload them to a different website that hosts pictures (like photobucket.com) and post the link to your album in here. You can not upload them directly to this forum.
As this thread will be locked due to the number of replies, please start a new thread.