Fred Gaarde wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 5:53 pm
Carl, as of this point in time, you and Dick and I are in a position to complete a tier of 1868’s.
You both have an 1868 dated rifle and only each require an 1869 or an 1870 dated rifle to complete the set.
Bravo!
I might just keep number 86 and look for and buy an 1869 and an 1870 dated rifle myself.
There was one at the Allentown show yesterday but not worth the price nor condition I’d like to find. March is the Baltimore show, I’m sure there will be a few there.
I would keep one of those 68’s if I were you Fred!! Thought I would never have one and now that I do you’d have to pry it from my cold dead hands to get it
You had some GREAT LUCK to find 5.
Dick Hosmer wrote: ↑Sat Dec 02, 2023 12:37 am
Carl, I honestly don't know at this point, but, based on the condition of mine vs. the ones offered on GB, I'd GUESS around $2500. But, it's not presently for sale.
I know this is an older post but I picked up my 1868 for $650 recently. Besides a broken firing pin and a chunk taken out of the left forearm it is in great mechanical shape. It has the original stock finish with painted numbers on the right stock and a 73 stamped on the toe of the stock. Wish I could post pictures.
I would keep one of those 68’s if I were you Fred!! Thought I would never have one and now that I do you’d have to pry it from my cold dead hands to get it
You had some GREAT LUCK to find 5.
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Carl, I feel you are right. I should keep #86 and trade or sell #6 to someone who recognizes its significance and collector value.
I would keep one of those 68’s if I were you Fred!! Thought I would never have one and now that I do you’d have to pry it from my cold dead hands to get it
You had some GREAT LUCK to find 5.
Carl, I feel you are right. I should keep #86 and trade or sell #6 to someone who recognizes its significance and collector value.
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I haven't seen your 68's on GB or GI so I figured you had sold them.
If it were I, I'd keep #6 because of it's significance and it's a single digit.
Well, I live out in the sticks far away from anyone and not a soul is around to come by and enjoy looking at it.
#6 should be in a collection where people can see it.
If the Springfield Armory Museum had something to trade for it, I’d go that route, but I won’t “donate” a damned thing to them.
They already have #1 and #8. Maybe they’d like to have
#6 too.
Fred Gaarde wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 10:10 pm
Well, I live out in the sticks far away from anyone and not a soul is around to come by and enjoy looking at it.
#6 should be in a collection where people can see it.
If the Springfield Armory Museum had something to trade for it, I’d go that route, but I won’t “donate” a damned thing to them.
They already have #1 and #8. Maybe they’d like to have
#6 too.
Have you spoken to the armory about a possible trade?
No.
I won’t contact their museum about that.
There wouldn’t be anyone to speak to about that or who would make a decision about that there.
If I start going senile in the future, I’ll just pound it into the ground to use it as a corner post for repairing the coral and its unique cleaning rod to use as a tomato stake before I allow our kids to take it to a pawn shop or a gun store for $100.00
Fred Gaarde wrote: ↑Mon Jan 22, 2024 1:55 am
No.
I won’t contact their museum about that.
There wouldn’t be anyone to speak to about that or who would make a decision about that there.
If I start going senile in the future, I’ll just pound it into the ground to use it as a corner post for repairing the coral and its unique cleaning rod to use as a tomato stake before I allow our kids to take it to a pawn shop or a gun store for $100.00
Just for the record, the current curator, one Alexander McKenzie, is a really nice guy, friendly and very trapdoor-knowledgeable - absolutely head and shoulders above some of the prior old fossils guarding that desk . . .
