Most guys would have taken advantage of his ignorance.maybe I should have. If it had been anybody else I'd have paid the two hundred for it and walked out the door with a gem. My friend is always sly about what he pays for stuff but from what he did tell me I knew he had less than $100 in that musket and he said he hoped he'd get a couple hundred out of it. Some elderly lady in Atlanta has dumped it in the trash in front of her home and the picker who sold it to my friend didn't know what it was either.but he figured it was worth something. I wasn't familiar with those but when I saw the Springfield Armory markings and 1844 date I about fainted. "I hope I didn't pay too 's probably a reproduction". He made the comment to me as he handed me the musket. I got a call on Saturday morning asking me to look at "an old rifle" and some swords he'd just bought. If you haven't already, be sure to check out my 124th New York associated musket. He said it was a first come, first servce basis - when I returned an hour later, it was gone. I asked the guy if he would take a check, and he wouldn't. I had already spent $800 at the show, and I had two hundred in my pocket. It was a Springfield Armoury piece, dated 1861. A guy had one, which was pristine, with a $1200 price tag. I was at an antique show a couple of years ago. The men that they had faced were Cobb's Legion, many of whom were armed with Harper's Ferry Rifles - not a fair contest.īy far, my favorite musket is the M1861. At Fredericksburg, on December 13, 1862, the men of the 69th New York attacked Maryes Heights with M1842's. The M1842 is one of the harder to find models too - a great gun if you want to portray a soldier of the Irish Brigade. How long ago was this? That's crazy that people would throw a gun like this in the trash.
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