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Auction houses and Western collectors enjoyed a banner year of selling and buying art, collectibles and firearms.

Why do we collect The West? For most of us it’s not about the money, nor is it just an investment. It is about a love of the artifacts.

And why? Sometimes it’s their sheer beauty, like the exquisitely engraved firearms offered by Rock Island Auctions at the beginning of 2021, or the luminescence of a R. Tom Gilleon painting of a tepee and offered at The Russell Auction this past August.

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Or it might be the unusual nature of an item, like the Harrington and Richardson Arms Company’s countertop display offered at Brian Lebel’s Old West Auction in June. But above all we are drawn to the stories associated with artifacts, like the revolver used by Pat Garrett to kill Billy the Kid. The sale of that otherwise ordinary firearm established a world record at Bonham’s in August.

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