FAIRFIELD -- Eighty-year-old John McBride whooped it up Tuesday when auctioneer James Julia announced the winning bid of $800,000 for McBride's great-great-uncle's Colt Walker .44 revolver.
"Yee-ha," McBride yelped, waving his cowboy hat. McBride, from Montana, will get the lion's share of that money, based on a sliding-fee commission that Julia would not divulge.
The new owner of the pristine Colt, bidding in absentia, paid a world record $800,000 plus commission for the pristine revolver, made for the use of U.S. marshals in the Mexican-American War.
Julia gets a 17 percent commission from the Colt Walker's new owner.
The winning bidder's agent, sitting at long table of hopefuls from around the world, made the winning offer following about two
minutes of bidding.
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