 The grips on Clint Eastwood (qv)s pistol have an inlaid silver  rattlesnake. His pistol in _Per qualche dollaro in più (1965)_ (qv)  had the same grips. In the TV series _"Rawhide" (1959)_ (qv), Rowdy  Yates (Clint Eastwood (qv)) kills a gunfighter carrying a pistol  with the same grips and takes it for his own.  Clint Eastwood (qv)s character would carry the pistol with the  rattlesnake grips for the remainder of the series run.