Good price?

[61Cadillac]

While at an antique shop yesterday hoping to find someone period relics (Ideally a saber) and I came across this item. I know its the right period, just not sure if it is worth $95.

 

[bayonet]

Well if you can fill it with beer and it still works than yeah good price!

 

[gary]

It won't hold water. Look at the gaps in the wood. It's shrunk and you need to wet it to get the wood to expand again. Hopefully it does. Yeah, I'd buy it. They used to teach bucket making at Conner Prairie (Fishers, Indiana). Same principles as barrel making. Staves have to be cut at a certain angle so when assembled, they are tight and hold liquid.

 

[Jim in Wisconsin]

Well, the tag says it's rare - so it must be worth it!

 

[Lampasas Bill]

Are those bands galvanized tin?

 

[gary]

Are those bands galvanized tin?

Good question. With their green verdigris, they may be brass.

 

[61Cadillac]

They are galvanized

 

[bayonet]

Well, the tag says it's rare - so it must be worth it!

Rarer still if there is 226 year old Whiskey still in it!