The Most RARE and Expensive Guns | Antiques Roadshow

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The Most RARE and Expensive Guns | Antiques Roadshow

Some of the rarest and most expensive guns ever brought to Antiques Roadshow were sitting in closets, toolboxes, and locked trunks. A pistol mistaken for a tool. A cane bought at Goodwill for $6.99. A shotgun captured three days before Appomattox that experts couldn't agree on a ceiling for. In this Antiques Roadshow best-of documentary, we uncover extraordinary antique firearms, their histories, and the appraisals that stunned their owners.

This episode features an early iron-frame Henry rifle valued up to $100,000, a Mortimer shotgun taken from General Longstreet's supply train, an 1851 Colt Navy presented by President James Buchanan to frontiersman Seth Kinman, engraved Colt Single Action Armys with factory letters, Pennsylvania long rifles by Christian Beck and Adam Daniels, Confederate Richmond muskets, Scottish Doune pistols, Civil War derringers, a Kunz pistol cane, a Korean matchlock tiger gun, a Japanese wall gun, and a Winchester 1894 with a Buffalo Bill connection. Along the way, experts explain how factory archives, inspector cartouches, original finish, matched pairs, and unaltered parts can multiply a gun's value or destroy it entirely.

From a $6.99 thrift store cane to a Custer-era Colt whose replaced parts cost it tens of thousands, these appraisals prove that in the world of antique arms, provenance is everything.