The April 1956 Colt catalog shows a suggested retail price of $125 for a blue Python, when the average weekly income for an American household that same year was $68.

Here's What You Need To Remember: The Colt Python was retired by Colt in 2005.The real reason why Colt gave up on such a desirable money maker is unknown, but the high cost of modern labor -- a ...

Colt Manufacturing Company LLC showed off the reintroduction of its .357 Magnum Python revolver at SHOT Show 2020.

One of seven mid-20th century Colt handguns named after snakes, the Python was introduced in 1955. The Python was a beefy, all steel and wood revolver chambered in .357 Magnum.

Colt’s Custom Shop offered the Python Elite through special-order-only in 1997, discontinuing it a year later, and reintroducing it a year after that. Finally, Pythons were reintroduced from the ...