Thanks to everyone who responded. I got a little motived. I found this excellent source. There is only 1 chapter on the guntrade. These folks really have their statistics together. They even provide direct comparisions for labor costs between Birmingham and Liege. They also were very much into gathering stats about who supplied the most arms at what cost during the American Civil War.

Here are just some interesting pieces, I am jumping around...





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Remember, all the above applies to 1866. They never did an update, unfortunately.

Pete