Al Capone's Gun Up For Sale

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed)
May 6th 2010 at 10:30AM

Recently we featured a drug kingpin's diamond-covered guns on this site but if you'd like something with a little more history for your own collection the silver-plated Colt .38 Special Al Capone bought in 1939 is up for grabs. The gun is for sale for $95,000 on MomentsInTime.com.

The listing says that Capone's personal Colt Police Positive .38 Special revolver has the Colt logo stamped on the left side, with factory-original wood grips with Colt logos in relief. The gun was manufactured in 1939, the year Capone was released from federal prison. It comes from estate of Ralph "Bottles" Capone (1893-1974). Ralph was never a big-time Chicago mobster like his brother but he did serve time for the same crime his brother went to prison for, income tax evasion. His nickname "Bottles" came from a business he ran distributing bottled water in Chicago. The brothers were close and Ralph was entrusted with some of Al's possessions, including his rosary, baptismal medal, and this pistol. After Ralph's death per the terms of his will, the gun was given to longtime friend Edmund Koeski in 1976.

Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone is one of the most notorious gangsters this country has ever seen. He led a Prohibition-era crime syndicate that was dedicated to smuggling and bootlegging liquor as well as gambling and other illegal activities in Chicago during the1920s. As was dramatized in movies including "The Untouchables," Bureau of Prohibition agent Eliot Ness went after Capone, closing down many of the breweries and speakeasies Capone owned. In 1931 Capone was indicted for income tax evasion and various violations of the Volstead Act and served time at Alcatraz among other places. He was paroled in 1939, which is when he picked up this gun and moved to his home in Palm Island, Florida. He died in 1947.

[via NY Post]

Tags: al capone, colt gun, colt pistol, gun, guns, mobster, moments in time

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BD May 6th 2010 8:26PM

Oh, my...just another thing someone removed from Al Capone's vault before Geraldo Rivera got there...

hutz5000 May 6th 2010 9:18PM

I want Big Al's baseball bat!

Taterbug May 6th 2010 8:37PM

I'd offer about $450.00 for it. . maybe 6 or $700,because of its history. Show me an old Western Colt,owned by ,say,Billy the kid,or somebody like that,then maybe we could talk the high prices.just my 2 cents worth

Jimbo May 6th 2010 10:23PM

You got something against Italians?

jeffnow329 May 7th 2010 12:21AM

my 2 cents....offer $450.02

Charles Boardman May 6th 2010 8:57PM

He died of STD.

Dave May 6th 2010 8:48PM

Grandma lived just off of Clark St in Chicago in the 1920s. I had always heard that there was a gun hidden in the attic , a pistol I think. and that it had been used by gangsters.
They sold the house in the 1950s but , unless major work had to be done I would bet that gun is still there.
Also you never know what was burried near an old tree even if the stump is gone, check it out.

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BudMax77 May 6th 2010 10:47PM

Well, if Al purchased this gun after he came out of prison, it is most likely it was never used, and therefore not much of a genuine historical piece. Let's see some items from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and then we can talk business. LOL

sheffersn May 7th 2010 12:30AM

Capone most likely wouldn't have acquired a gun after serving his sentence. He was released early because he was so mentally incapacitated from syphilis.

yellowlab1002 May 6th 2010 11:20PM

Where have all my heros gone? They sure don't make them like they used to.

krayzie089 May 6th 2010 10:55PM

gimme that bubble now, ill name that tune

hoverZero May 6th 2010 11:05PM

Maybe it's haunted & or evil !?
I can just see an unsuspecting buyer buying it & becoming possessed by long dead Al Capone who will run illegal marijuana joints.
Then Elliot Ness will return to vanquish his spirit or just get really stoned, haha.

ED May 7th 2010 2:21AM

What are you smoking? Wish I had some!

GINGER10487 May 6th 2010 11:42PM

WELL I WONDER IF JOSEPH KENNEDY WAS A MEMBER OF HIS GANG SINCE HE MADE HIS MONEY BOOTLEGGING TOO

phil May 7th 2010 12:25AM

Growing up on the north side i loved mr al capone he done a lot of good there wish i was around when he was there i would love to work for him long live al rip my friend

Carolyn May 10th 2010 11:20PM

Al Copone was an honest Man along side these theifing Elected Officials we have in Office today.

Dev Stack May 7th 2010 8:26AM

I beliveve they meant "nickle-plated" and not silver. Also hard to find that a syphilitic ex-felon would be able to obtain a revolver, except through his brother alone. Sounds fishy. Speaking of fishy, anyone seen Johnny Rosselli lately?

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