BUY-SELL-TRADE TD 1877 Stared Carbine in Great Shape

[Tom Trevor]

Wayne, Please post a picture of the proof area in question.

[texasmac]

Tom,

Here you go. As you can see, little remains of the V P & eagles head.

Wayne

[Tom Trevor]

It sure looks like the barrel has been refinished. Overall condition indicates it may have been an original earlier barrel with perfect bore that was reused as were many parts on the star rifles and carbines. on the top of the barrel between receiver and sight is there a small single letter A or R or T ?

[texasmac]

Tom,

That's no surprise & concurs with my non-expert opinion. There's nothing on top of the barrel between receiver & sight. So, is $2200 still reasonable as to its worth? Using the old idiom, I certainly don't intend to sell "a pig in a poke". Thanks.

Wayne

[Tom Trevor]

The fact there is nothing there is good about the time this carbine was put up new barrels had a letter where I asked you to look. This may show its a barrel reused. There are a couple of others but in the main 1879-1885 you find an R then an A until end of production. Its an inspection we think as it showed up on an unfinished condemned barrel at Numrich a friend bought from them.
There was quite a discussion on this in Als newsletters some years ago if you have copies of them.
I think the price is very fair and the barrel would not bother me. But that is only my .02 worth.

[texasmac]

Thanks Tom. I'll hold the price for now. I sure appreciate your help.

BTW, at one time I had all of Al's newsletters & his books, but sold everything including a pristine 1884 rifle that appeared never to have been fired & still coated with cosmoline or whatever the armory used.. I was in brand new perfect condition (no dings or scratches with beautiful case colors) as if it was just removed from the crate. I was told it was in fact from an unopened crate found at the armory. I had several discussion about the rifle with Al at the time (2002). I'm not a collector & came by the rifle by chance while looking for a shooter. But after receiving it there was no way I was going to shoot it, hence the reason I bought the carbine from Al, but never got around to shooting it either. I sold the rifle to a guy in Canada a couple years ago for $2,770 along with a pristine bayonet, scabbard & three tools. If anyone would like to see what a perfect unfired 1884 looks like I can start a new thread with plenty of photos. But I'm getting way off the subject of this thread.

Thanks again,
Wayne