Greg Martin Hits Target With Sale Totaling More Than $7 Million
Antiques and the Arts Weekly
Greg Martin Auctions realized more than $7 million in sales at its auction of Part I of the Robert Howard collection and the collection of Bowie knives.
Greg Martin Auctions realized more than $7 million in sales at its auction of Part I of the Robert Howard collection and the collection of Bowie knives.
“Colt revolvers have always been the blue chips of gun collecting,” says Greg Martin, president of Greg Martin Auctions. “The romance, the craftsmanship, the history. Sam Colt the man, the promoter, the first American industrialist. All wrapped together it [really makes] an American story.”
The year was 1863 – a pivotal time in the Civil War. America had emerged as a deeply divided country of 20 Union and 13 Confederate states, anything but united with secession and slavery politically and socially paralyzing both sides.