The Last Dorado: The Golden Colt of Pancho Villa

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9 ай бұрын

2023 is the centenary of Pancho Villa's assassination and Mexico has dubbed it "The year of Francisco Villa." Yes, the legacy of "The People's Revolutionary" still burns bright.
Offered this December will be Villa's golden Colt Single Action Army, bearing two inscriptions to the general of the North. It's a supremely collectible Colt brought to new heights by the most famous figure of the Mexican Revolution.
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@dervolkstribun6240 9 ай бұрын

What a gun, what a story, what a man! Those guns, those storys and those men are legacys of the past, never to return.

@ClickClack_Bam 9 ай бұрын

Pancho Villa's reported last words: "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something".

@CameronMcCreary 9 ай бұрын

It doesn't even look like the loading gate was opened! 😂

@STEVEOMEMES 9 ай бұрын

More great history from RIA and a true work of art. El arma de oro de Pancho Villa

@tannstang 9 ай бұрын

I want it

@marillionman8811 9 ай бұрын

A work of art and an item of beauty.

@kennyarmer4092 9 ай бұрын

I hope you video this auction, outstanding piece!

@jerryburgess977 8 ай бұрын

It’s amazing to me that such historical pieces come up for auction. The stories of their history are fantastic!

@Knyfefyte 8 ай бұрын

This was a great video, bravo RIA!

@hazcat640 9 ай бұрын

So, it was delivered to the jewelry company did Villa ever take receipt?

@TacticalTerry 9 ай бұрын

Probably not known. Another reason to "buy the gun and not the story" although the story is quite interesting.

@DK-gy7ll 6 ай бұрын

It doesn't sound like there any proof Villa actually owned this revolver. If there was they'd have shown it in the video. Instead all we have is a pretty gun and a great story.

@maczilla2012 17 күн бұрын

You ever been to El Paso??? It’s our history buddy. 😂

@BlackPowderHistorian 9 ай бұрын

Beautifully told Joel. 👏

@wildcolonialman 9 ай бұрын

Fascinating.

@davidguntren4487 Ай бұрын

PD Cheney, (jerseyville Illinois). Was in Position of one of Pancho Villa pistols in the late 60's-early 70's. His house was robbed and his wife and him tied up. CHENEY'S collection was extensive including a commissioned Jules Ceasar fountain. His collection was never recovered

@aidanacebo9529 9 ай бұрын

one day I will own an engraved peacemaker with my name on the heel. one day.

@agoogleaccount2861 8 ай бұрын

He must've had quite a collection. Saw one of his supposed guns in a museum someplace many years ago. It was a plain checkered wood handled Spanish made 32/20 revolver

@billshepherd4331 9 ай бұрын

You do history well!

@clintonsmith9931 8 ай бұрын

Bandits were feared to possible enter the US up in till late 1930s. My father was horse Calvary in Ft Bliss at the time they finally killed the horses. They use to watch fighting from rooftops in El Paso and we’re always on watch for crossovers. He left the Calvary in 1938, refusing to help shoot the horses.

@5mproductions847 8 ай бұрын

Why shoot them at all?

@elyaqui5324 7 ай бұрын

Well Said My Friend!

@JohnnyBallou 28 күн бұрын

I was blessed to video an elderly Mexican woman who said that as a little girl, she asked Pancho Villa for her previously confiscated pony. He asked "Do you see it?" And told her to go get it and take it home!

@snappers_antique_firearms 9 ай бұрын

a very cool SAA.

@davidbeachel 2 ай бұрын

I’ve seen the estimate written at $650-$950k. Does anyone know the actual hammer price with premium?

@jerrydonquixote5927 9 ай бұрын

Viva Pancho Villa...

@acidtreat101 8 ай бұрын

Amazing video and history, and it touches on something deep and personal within my own family history. My great grandfather was a sheriff in New Mexico and the US forces that ventured into Mexico during that time brought him along due to his knowledge of the area. I don't know exactly how big of a role he played, but my family still has his Colt Single Action army. There's no engraving and it very worn with basically no original finish as it was used and carried by him, but he did take care of it and it's still fully functional.

@robr6925 9 ай бұрын

What gun is he holding 1:19 in video?

@RockIslandAuctionCompany 9 ай бұрын

Hotchkiss machine gun. Likely an M1914.

@blafishing7581 7 ай бұрын

Anyone know what the pistol auctioned for yesterday? RI won't release info until next week. TY

@lolocaddy2011 7 ай бұрын

it looks like it went for $525,000!

@blafishing7581 7 ай бұрын

Thank you for the info...any online verification on that sum?? TY again !! @@lolocaddy2011

@m.j.vazquez4720 4 ай бұрын

@@lolocaddy2011 who bought it ?

@m.j.vazquez4720 4 ай бұрын

how much did it sell for ?

@jedgarren2901 9 ай бұрын

Elfago Baca went all American South of the border and liberated a gun from Pancho Villa. #Freedom

@oldhorse4171 9 ай бұрын

When does this sell?

@RockIslandAuctionCompany 9 ай бұрын

This December during our December 8-10 Premier Auction.

@chrischiampo7647 9 ай бұрын

😮😲😀👍🏼

@TheBFN Ай бұрын

😈🔱👿...its wild how long mexicans have loved gold guns... From villa to cartels... Colts to aks..

@waterhead1359 9 ай бұрын

Wow a jewelry store ffl.

@babarama283 8 ай бұрын

Is there any record that Villa actually touched the gun?

@joeguzman3558 8 ай бұрын

After the Mexican revolution he ended up with 50 security guards and hundreds of rifles and handguns in fact the Mexican government at the time feared another revolution because of all the weapons villa posed, but after ge got killed there's no mention of what happened to all of the guns , I believe he had a brother wife and children and I've been reading the government took back the hacienda he owned but his security guards just went their own way and probably took some of the weapons, I remember back in the 1970s in a Mexican TV station they interviewed his widow and she showed them lots of holsters and the documents he had to agreed after the revolution but the widow didn't have any guns only holsters.

@tannstang 9 ай бұрын

I'll take it off your hands for...say $200 ?

@jalisco872 8 ай бұрын

Close to a million dollars

@joeguzman3558 8 ай бұрын

Pancho villa was the first Mexican mathematician _ he invented the north division _ lol

@LeoTheLion.4601 8 ай бұрын

Mexicos 🇲🇽 Robin Hood

@buckshot4428 2 ай бұрын

In 1916 my Grandfather was on the Mexican border looking forf Pancho Villa. After that he was sent over to France where he earned Two Silver Stars.

@libeloussmith7656 9 ай бұрын

Remember Columbus, New Mexico! He killed 17 Americans there. You really want that Colt?

@jalisco872 8 ай бұрын

Absofuckinglutely it’s Mexican history, a “ignorant “ uneducated Mexican destroying the “sophisticated” American army

@cprocel96 8 ай бұрын

I'm sure the body count on that Colt is high, but who cares. If I had the bread I'd buy it.

@jameswolf4894 8 ай бұрын

How many americans died in the American Civil War not too long before the Mexican Revolution? Still see loads of Civil War weapons traded and sold today for their historic value. Not to forget WW2 German Weapons like the Mouser are still traded and sold as well by collectors.

@m.j.vazquez4720 4 ай бұрын

why not ?

@deanhoward4128 13 күн бұрын

There was another engraved colt during that time period & it belonged to none other than George S.Patton...who was a then Lt. with General Pershing who led the Army to find & capture Villa; Pershing & Patton did not get Pancho Villa, but there are 3 notches in the ivory grips of Patton's colt...for 3 of Villa's bandits that Lt. Patton personally killed & displayed on the hood of his car!