What model Krider is this?

Elliot, did you already buy at least one each of all Colt snubbies ever made, so that now you need a new area in which to focus your collecting efforts?

Collects said:

Elliot, did you already buy at least one each of all Colt snubbies ever made, so that now you need a new area in which to focus your collecting efforts?

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I am now into engraved Colt's. The Krider was part of an auction "Lot" I had to buy to get one. :-(

Elliot, yours is a rather simple example of a John Krider half-stock percussion rifle perhaps from the late 1860's. Some of his more elaborate, heavy rifles can fetch $5000 to $50,000 (exquisite patch boxes, tang sights, adjustable front signts, lots of engraving). I'd guess yours at about $2000± - I'm no real expert on Kriders, so if there is something special about it, it could be more.

Buck