Old Stuff, What Do You Have?

[user 31296]

Hi my old Charles Boswell Shotgun 1903 classic English 12 gauge Double

 

[Coinneach]

some day that is all any of us will be- just people in a faded long ago photo! sad but true! think of it? GONE BUT FORGOTTEN!

Thats it, and our grandchildren trailering all of our "old junk" to the local garbage dump.

 

[cynthialee]

I don't have any old kit related to muzzle loading. My oldest gun is a TC Hawken from the late 90's

I do have an old model 1917 bayonet, but that quite a bit after the time period we focus on here.

 

[1971fx]

The turkey shoot in Sgt. York was muzzleloaders

 

[Dude]

I think my 94 Winchester is 1937 - I should write it down since the date is under the fore end stock. I've got a 6" vise made by the Oregon State University (very scarce) made in the 1950s. How about a very early portable tube radio from the 50s? But as far as guns, the 94 is oldest. I almost got a Remington rolling block dating from the late 19th century - it's probably still available and I still think about getting it.

 

[59sharps]

Two ex wife’s a few ex girlfriends. Some ground that ground rocks . A few WWII coins buttons a sleeve swastika a German dress bayonet my dad brought back and some WWI stuff from my grandfather

 

[HiDesertHunter]

Lots of unique antiques, vintage gun & reloading accessories, a large coin collection and an 1899 Winchester Mod 94 'Klondike' Sporting Rifle.

 

[Semisane]

Kind of a side note to this topic.

I'm not sure when GOEX switched from metal cans to plastic canisters, but I think it was in sometime in 2012/2013. It may have been even earlier than that.

Anyway, back then I was in the habit of buying a 25 lb. case of GOEX each year from Jack's Powder Keg as a Christmas present to myself. When they switched to plastic, I saved the shipping box and empty cans from the last case I bought before the switch.

That box of empty cans is sitting in my attic with a note saying "Do Not Throw Away. These are for my great, great grandkids to sell as valuable collectables."

The price noted on the box is $10.16 lb. (tax & shipping included).

 

[satwel]

I have a three pound iron cannon ball that we dug out of the side of a creek bed in Maud, Ohio in the late 50's. My parents and I found it during a fossil hunt when I was a boy. A historian in Cincinnati, to whom my parents showed the cannon ball, said it was likely fired by either the St. Claire or Mad Anthony Wayne expeditions. The ball is slightly flattened on one side from when it embedded itself between the slate layers of the creek bed.

 

[Sprglde]

1869 clock and my panhead.

 

[JamesA]

Oh! I have an 1899 Indian head penny in pretty good shape. And my wife's Belgian made percussion "boot" gun. Don't know the year. There is a photo of it on the forum under antique gun questions.

 

[gunnyr]

I’ve got a wife for more then fifty years.

Me too. She says that if I bring home another gun or hat ,she is leaving. So far I haven't found any that I can't live without'
Gunny

 

[Eric Krewson]

Some teenage marriages last, some don't, I think my first wife (high school girlfriend) got too big for her britches, she sure had a tough time keeping them on when she got away from the house while I was on evening and midnight shifts.

 

[Dixieshedhunter]

My homemade tools.

 

[Mattmatt617]

https://lsbauctions.com/2144/the-lu...49-house-pistol-model-1851-and-us-model-1860/
a couple of my favorites. The ensign came from some young moron “it was in my grandma’s attic and I just want to get rid of it…”$175. I can’t believe it. Never seen one like it and even Jeff Bridgeman was taken aback, flags are his thing. Powder horn, unknown date I think $50 different guy, because he didn’t care, same guy sold me his DADs case pocket knife for $5 (what is wrong with people?) and the jewel in the crown, total dumb luck. 1851 colt navy, made in 1854 WITH provenance almost impossible to get after the colt fire. Gun was reasonably priced, didn’t find out about history until I googled it one day in the lab, I forgot a magazine, almost fell off the toilet. I love old stuff, firearms specifically, and this forum is a blast. Merry Christmas you filthy animals.

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

My oldest cartridge firearm is an 1867 Remington Rolling Block rifle in .45/70. It is also my newest cartridge rifle. Oldest muzzleloader is a lovely custom Hawken that is 50 years old and has never missed fire. My C Series Navy Colt is about the same age and just as reliable. My wife is my greatest treasure. Thought I'd toss that in for perspective. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL OF YOU!!!!

 

[1971fx]

A couple of things around the yard

 

[Russ T Frizzen]

Some teenage marriages last, some don't, I think my first wife (high school girlfriend) got too big for her britches, she sure had a tough time keeping them on when she got away from the house while I was on evening and midnight shifts.

I had one of those, Eric! Don't know how many husbands she had after me, but the last one murdered her back in the 1990s.

 

[Eutycus]

Cigar box full arrowheads, a dozen different Confederate notes and bonds and a 1856 half dollar.

 

[TFoley]

My oldest firearm is an 1858 .577cal Volunteer rifle made by Robert Taylor Pritchett - likely one of the last he made before he moved away from 86 St James Street London.

Got some Indian lance heads made of obsidian from the Klamath basin in Oregon, too.