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Delaware attic held secret to historic museum burglary spree — and a million-dollar gun

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/delaware-attic-held-secret-historic-210030343.html
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Thats something to find them after 50yrs. Glad they got recovered.

I remember Dad, brother and I seeing the Ralph Foster gun collection down at the School of the Ozarks south of Branson Mo. back in 1975. Impressive collection from 17th century flintlocks up, Civil War era was real good. They had a burglry sometime after that (late 70s?). I looked at the states that were recovered and it looked like Mississippi was as far west that was envolved. I called my stepdad, he didn't remember anything about it, been too long.

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It is great that these were recovered and are being returned. I hope they will be on display s the public can enjoy. As a kid my cousins & I took every opportunity to visit the Panhandle Plains Historical Museum in Canton Texas where we lived. I had a very large gun collection from Chinese hand cannons to WWII weapons. Many from our favorite era covering from the Alamo through the Cowboy days. Most of those guns are no longer on display. Just a few get rotated into other displays. There was a Walker Colt  and several Winchesters with Ranch brands burned into the stocks.

Several years ago a carpenter who was doing a remodel on an old house in Carson City came into a gun shop my friends owned. He had an old handgun he had found in a wall wrapped in a rag. It was a Volcanic lever action pistol. I was the only one there that knew what it was. I tried to buy it but he was too sharp for me.  ::)  A very interesting piece and the basis for both the Henry and thus the "66 Winchester. The receiver of the Volcanic was very similar to the later rifles and well designed. Its problem was ammunition. It used an early self contained cartridge that was simply a hollow base led bullet much like a Civil War era mini-ball. The powder charge was a compressed black powder charge placed in the hollow base with some type of primer on the back. It was not a dependable round. After buying the Volcanic Company Henry used a 44 rimfire cartridge that worked much better but not as powerful as the 44-40 that Winchester eventually used in the '66 and later '73 & '92 rifles.
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This is a hand me down Pepperbox...no markings so I have no idea who made it.  Nice shape for an oldie.
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That is cool. I'd shoot it! A friend had one in the 60s. It was a Hopkins & Allen. Mark Twain included a funny story in Roughing It about all barrels often going off at once. My friend's was fun but not reliable.
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