Czar Nicolas A-1 Special

Fishtail · 11-14-2012, 06:53 PM

Bruce, I am not faulting you for calling it the Czar's gun. I recognize that title is in the public domain by now. Rather, I am poking fun and wonderment at the gun world for assigning such a name to a gun that to the best of our knowledge never was owned by the Czar. In fact, I don't think anyone can even show he even knew it existed at all. So if a gun of such stature can bring the big bucks I don't see why my Lincoln's Gun can't do the same. The fact that he was dead a little while before I bought it for him means nothing. There's no law that says I can't buy a gift for the deceased.

Jim Thynne · 11-20-2012, 11:31 PM

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Originally Posted by greg conomos

Bruce, I am not faulting you for calling it the Czar's gun. I recognize that title is in the public domain by now. Rather, I am poking fun and wonderment at the gun world for assigning such a name to a gun that to the best of our knowledge never was owned by the Czar. In fact, I don't think anyone can even show he even knew it existed at all. So if a gun of such stature can bring the big bucks I don't see why my Lincoln's Gun can't do the same. The fact that he was dead a little while before I bought it for him means nothing. There's no law that says I can't buy a gift for the deceased.

Then it was L C Smith built for the Czar??

edgarspencer · 11-21-2012, 05:07 AM

I have every reason to believe I also own not one, but several Not The Czar's guns. A few are not the Czars Hammer guns, and I even have a bunch of not the Czar's Winchesters. I Don't know if any of my Parker not the Czar's guns have ever left the United States, but I do know several went to South Carolina this fall.
Seriously, I remember when the Galazan gun was done, it was pretty upsetting to a lot of people in the gun community, not the least of whom was the owner of it, who was duped out of a lot of money. A very good friend was dragged into court to testify and he wasn't any too pleased as I recall. Yes, it was, and is a very beautiful gun, created by a very talented individual, but it's hard to forget his original motivation.