1st Gen. Colt's SAA for $15.50

[Four-Eyed Buck]

A volume discount does make sense, maybe those new fangled double cockers were starting to make inroads on the SAA sales......Buck

[Scattered Thumbs]

On most industrial products production costs kept lowering at a steady pace, that allowed most prices to drop. Remember what happened to the prices of the model T Ford. 

Only in our modern times do production costs get shaved while the product gets more expensive. 

[Big John Denny]

It must be those evil "middle men" causing the prices to go up.

[tarheel mac]

Let's see..the country was still pretty much wide open,very few gun laws..(NYC's Sullivan Act was the only one I can think of from that period..)  no home grown terrorism to speak of..and Colt SAs for only 15.50..man those guys had it rough!   

[Highlander999]

How amazing the earlier conversation is.  I am sure at the time, no one thought, Let's buy up a couple a year, set them aside, and our great grandkids will have something no one else has.  But then, the grandkids would have sold them out to buy the new fangled automobile anyway.

But, I'll take a 45 in 4 3/4, a 38.40 in 5 1/2 and a 32.20 in both 5 1/2 and 7 1/2.