Just takes the right buyer.
Provenance and documentation is of utmost importance as well as condition, fit, finish and having the configuration to match the documentation.
I dealt a bit in old west memorabilia with some pretty heavy hitters in the past.... And can tell you high dollar guns always sell better with a story.
Like if a famous outlaw, or lawman, or showman owned it. Or it killed someone famous, or someone famous killed somebody with it. (All requiring the same proof of course.)
Sometimes the ones you thing would fetch outrageous amounts, fall way short of expectations. Sometimes they meet them.
