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7,750.00USD+ buyer's premium + applicable fees & taxes.
This item SOLD at 2013 Nov 18 @ 12:43UTC-8 : PST/AKDT
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Historical grouping of a Colt SAA revolver, Winchester Model 1895 lever action SRC, Texas Ranger badge and a Special Officer badge for the A.T. & S.F. RY with documentation having belonged to Texas Ranger Chell Baker, who had a career spanning a fifty year period serving as a Regular Texas Ranger in Captain Will Wright’s Co. D in the early 1920’s, serving with the Brown County Sheriff’s Dept., working as a Special Officer with the Santa Fe Railroad and also as a Special Texas Ranger. The Colt SAA is a .45 cal., 5-1/2” barrel, blue finish, checkered hard rubber grips, #319706 with “J.F. Kreuz Austin, Tex” stamped on the top of the barrel; Kreuz was an old-time gunsmith around Austin who was known to repair and tune-up most of the Texas lawmens firearms in the area. This Colt is in overall very good condition as re-barreled showing remnants of an old re-blue, good bore, crisp action, matching visible numbers and good grips. The Model 1895 Winchester SRC, #401812, .30-06 marked at the breech, is in overall good condition showing a 22-1/2” re-barreled Springfield Match barrel, also marked “J.F. Kreuz Austin Tex 401” with traces of an old re-blue in protected areas, scattered spots of erosion and areas of pinprick and general light pitting from exposure to the elements; fair bore, good action, overall good wood stocks. The Texas Ranger badge is cut out of a Mexican Peso coin while the Special Officer Railroad badge is hallmarked on the reverse “F.W. Wilcox, Oak Park, ILL”. There is a 1990 notarized affidavit signed by Tom Burks, at the time of the affidavit, associated with the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, TX., relating his knowledge of the guns and of Ranger Baker; also a copy of a letter from J.F. “Buster” Kreuz relating his knowledge of Baker and these guns; a 1989 letter signed by Nolan Wade, executor of the estate of Chell M. Baker, discussing the Colt and Mr. Baker’s law enforcement career; copies of Baker’s Warrant of Authority as a Ranger from the State of Texas and his Enlistment, Oath of Service and Description Ranger Force; a Colt factory letter on the Single Action indicating it was originally in 38 W.C.F. cal., had a 4-3/4” barrel, was blue and was shipped to H & D Folsom Arms Co., New York, NY on October 11, 1911, in a shipment of 2 guns. There are copies of 5 pictures of Baker with other Rangers including him with Captain Wright and a copy of Jerry Hemphill’s book Colts From Texas and The Old West where his guns and Railroad badge are pictured and described on page 208. An opportunity to purchase for your collection, a brace of guns and badges used by a Texas Ranger and long time lawman with impeccable documentation. Est.: $6,000-$12,000.
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