Kid, since you and I have in the past communicated by PM in the past...I wanted to give credit to Julia...very professional....had a rifle picked up from my home which was in my family from my grandfathers days....packed ..great communication...but I was a seller. As it turned out I sold the rarest springfield trap door in the country....West point would have bought it ...but it was owned originally by General John Gibbon...who ordered it from the Wyoming territory as a hunting gun...the records were established though Dick Hosmer and another expert out of the Univ. of Ariz. whose name escapes me as I type.....it will be in a book on these officers rifles....Gibbon taught artillery tactics at West Point, was wounded during the battle of Fredricksburg, then assisted with Hancock to repel Picketts Charge, and again wounded.....then was one of the three generals to be with Grant at the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox. ... Then his rank was reduced to Col......where is arrived too late to assist Custer at the Little Big horn but in time to relieve Major Reno....Gibbons command buried the Custer dead...after , he pursued Chief Joseph and was again wounded at a later battle ....later on the west coast command , placed a west coast city under martial law during the Chinese riots...I think SF,could be Seattle... but forget. The gun is the rarest Springfield Trapdoor made... since it was an Officers model...but with a Marksman stock.....Freund( sp) sights....the only one on record...Julia was great and provided two pages in their catalogue...with Gibbons photo along with a cane I had.....as well as a more complete history...I was very happy with the result but more happy with how I was treated....along with a tax letter I need and appraisal.
Last edited by Condor; 10/04/13 02:38 PM.
