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It is interesting and I really don't think I'll blow this one for anybody!

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/649576781

You gotta love optimism!

They're good ol' boys over in Houston. Used to go in there every couple of months when I lived there. They had lots of goodies!

Look's like someone found something while planting their tomatoe's.

I wouldn't mind digging something like that up in the garden. But it is amazing how anything of something like that survives considering how corrosive black powder is. I've seen replica cap and ball 1858 New Army Remingtons look that bad left without cleaning for a few years. You can only imagine what black powder firearms looked like after a short stint under battle field conditions.

If I dug one up like that in my garden, I'd let it go for half that much. How much is an original Walker worth? Joe.

I bought a transition Winchester pre-64 Model 70 in 250-3000 off of them. Then they gave me dibs on a near mint pre war Super Grade which I took as well. This was awhile back, but they were great people to work with.

On the first page they had two Gatling guns, and there were 24 pages. I'd like to get a job there just dusting the guns, Joe.

All those Walkers and Pattersons, oh my.

My grandmother's BIL was a an antique gun "scrounger", for lack of a better term. He traveled around east central Pennsylvania during the Depression, going door to door at farms and villages asking if they had any old guns they wanted to sell. His standard rate was $1 for percussion Colts. When he accumulated a trunk full he drove them to to a dealer in Philadelphia who gave him $1.50-$2 apiece for them. I don't know his pricing structure for muskets, early Winchesters, what have you- my dad who told me the story didn't remember anything but the Colt prices. He done "r-u-n-n-o-f-t" sometime before I was born.

My great grandfather, who was the local "country gunsmith" advised the guy about quality/repairs needed, and skimmed the good stuff before Uncle Frank made the journey down to Philly. You should have seen his collection- by the early 60's when he (great gramps) was nearing 90 years old he was totally blind but still had his gun collection, racks of delectable long guns and cases of pistols, and he knew where each one was. He held court in his "man cave" and if anyone had played a prank and switched guns in the rack, he knew it and would get all bent out of shape. He was the guy from whom I learned to cuss in Pennsylvania Dutch on those occasions. He cashed out before he died, and only saved a couple guns to pass down to his two sons and grandkids. My dad got a Burnside carbine, and I still have it.

And y'all wonder why I'm a gun nut...