Beauty may be the wrong word for appreciation of old guns that been there & done their job -- but beauty will have to do till I think of a better word. Here are a few of mine with a story where applicable. Others invited ------->
Merwin Hulbert 1st Model
A man walked it into my Dad's shop, $15, 1960s --
Remington S&W Conversion --
Remington paid S&W $2.50 each contract price to mfgr cylinders. This one marked in fine letters on the cylinder. Ejector probably a gunsmith add-on.
Thought to be a promotional model bolt action probably pre-Steyr ca 1890 --
I paid $5 for it in Vienna 1948 & 20 years later traded it for two nice 1860 Armys, one of them below --
Colt 1860 Army
1897 Winchester & 1902 Colt Sporting model --
For me, they kinda go together, being of same period --
Colt Second Dragoon --
A pretty good one with a lot of the scene still visible. Baltimore gunshow 1980, dealer wanted $1800 for it. Traded two 1725ish German flint military pistols for it --
Merwin Hulbert 1st Model
A man walked it into my Dad's shop, $15, 1960s --
Remington S&W Conversion --
Remington paid S&W $2.50 each contract price to mfgr cylinders. This one marked in fine letters on the cylinder. Ejector probably a gunsmith add-on.
Thought to be a promotional model bolt action probably pre-Steyr ca 1890 --
I paid $5 for it in Vienna 1948 & 20 years later traded it for two nice 1860 Armys, one of them below --
Colt 1860 Army
1897 Winchester & 1902 Colt Sporting model --
For me, they kinda go together, being of same period --
Colt Second Dragoon --
A pretty good one with a lot of the scene still visible. Baltimore gunshow 1980, dealer wanted $1800 for it. Traded two 1725ish German flint military pistols for it --