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This just sold on Ebay for $355. Apparently a couple people wanted it. Anybody see one like it before?
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
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I am not saying this isn’t legitimate, because it could be, and I do not know enough about this to comment otherwise; however, I know I possess the skills to make a few of these in my basement in an evening.
I thought the same thing but wondered about why Buffalo Bill would use them. The year stamped on it, 1889 is the year he went to Europe on tour so they might of wanted all their stuff tagged while on the road. The only thing with that is you wouldn’t want the tag on the gun while using it in the show so you would have to be removing them all the time. Now how do you put them on the correct gun? You would put the serial number on the tag, it could be, #33 is a carbine in the ledgers. It would of made more sense to stamp the gun itself if they were worried about theft. The more I think about it now, Why have the year stamped on the tag? there is no reason to.
Bob
WACA Life Member--- NRA Life Member---- Cody Firearms member since 1991 Researching the Winchester 1873's
Email: [email protected]
There’s no doubt in my mind that this “Buffalo Bill Cody property tag” is as phony as a 3-dollar bill. It’s just another fantasy piece of “western memorabilia” that has found its way into some fool’s collection, and 40 years from now will have acquired some patina of (dubious) authenticity.
Just take a look at some of the ridiculous Wells Fargo stuff that has been sold on eBay over the past few years:
Wells Fargo “body tags” for shipping human remains
Wells Fargo star-shaped Agent’s badges (WF&Co didn’t issue any badges)
Wells Fargo kerosene lanterns
Wells Fargo shotguns (no authentic ones are known to exist)
And to top it off, the same guy who sold the Buffalo Bill property tag is offering a cast iron Wells Fargo boot scraper!
Aside from some very rare Colt revolvers, you can just about bet the ranch that anything for sale that is marked WF&Co is a fake.
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