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Rare Metal Marushin
BAT MASTERSON Colt S.A.A 45 Commemoration Model
Limited Edition with Wood Display Box
Wood Display Box with Bat Masterson plaque and engraved Edition Number (No.11) All moving parts, operates. functions like the real thing! Functions, Field-strips like the real thing Weight Approx: 1Kg Very Rare these come available Dummy bullet version with six Colt .45 Dummy Bullets (Please note five of the dummy bullets sleeves are cracked / see photos above / could be replaced with real inert Colt 45 bullets). In very good condition. Includes Wood display box (good condition / not brand new) 6x .45 Colt Dummy bullets for display purposes (as described above) Dummy bullet heads remove and casing can be fitting in cylinder Edition Number 11 of 1000 Original gold finish which can be polished to a chrome silver finish UK Customer this item is VCRA exempt We ship internationally. Please ask for a shipping quote: sales@mg-props.co.uk
Born in Illinois in 1855, William Barclay Masterson, nicknamed "Bat", drifted
westward as a teenager and tried his hand at such professions as buffalo hunter,
army scout and gunfighter. While visiting his brother Jim in Dodge City, Kansas,
in 1876, he was offered a job as deputy city marshal by the assistant city
marshal, Wyatt Earp. Since Jim Masterson was already
a deputy marshal, Bat took the job. His instincts as a lawman and gunfighter
were so good that the next year he was elected sheriff of Ford County, which
included Dodge City, where his brother was still a marshal. However, two years
later he ran for re-election as county sheriff and lost. He left Kansas and
traveled to Arizona, where he spent much time as a professional gambler in the
Tombstone vicinity, returning to Dodge City in 1882 to help his brother Jim in a
business dispute. For the next ten years Masterson divided his time between
being a professional gambler and short stints as a lawman in various small towns
in Colorado. His reputation often preceded him, however; in Denver the local
sheriff, after being advised that Masterson was in town and drinking heavily,
demanded that he either surrender his guns or leave town. Not wanting to go
unarmed in a town where he had a lot of enemies, Masterson was forced to leave.
The incident apparently did no lasting damage to his reputation, however, as in
1905 President Theodore Roosevelt appointed Masterson
as United States Marshal for the Southern District of New York State. Although
he was also offered an appointment as marshal of the Oklahoma Territory,
Masterson said that because of his reputation anyone wanting to make a
reputation for himself would come after him, and since he saw no use in getting
caught up in a kill-or-be-killed situation, he turned it down. He remained U.S.
Marshal in New York State for two years, resigning in 1907 to take a job he had
never done before: a sportswriter with a New York City newspaper, the Morning
Telegraph. He kept that job for the rest of his life, and in fact was at his
desk working on October 25, 1921, when he dropped dead.
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