Collection Home weaponry displays

[BillH]

I'm late to this thread, but I just wanted to say thanks to all of you! I'm impressed and inspired. Perhaps I'll have something to share one day...

 

[Patrick H]

I'm late to this thread, but I just wanted to say thanks to all of you! I'm impressed and inspired. Perhaps I'll have something to share one day...

Welcome from Missouri. Glad you joined!

 

[JOHN42768]

A lot of really great displays. Thanks for sharing

 

[Virginia Dave]

ucvrelics does nice work on anything that he does and his displays are first rate.

I'd like to see some pics of some quality HOME displays. No store displays, no picnic table spreads, no "line 'em up on the floor and take a pic" displays. I really want to see some actual well thought out home displays, either in your man cave or home office or den. Have you dedicated a room that others can "ooh and ahh?" Show us how artistic you all are when it comes to displaying your wares! Are your muskets hung? Do you have them on stands or framed? I'd have posted this under contemporary photos, but it's all about the weapons and how you show them. Let's see it!

Still a work in progress.

 

[Bigred]

this is some of my gear but not civil war...I am new to the civil war scene

 

[Ferd454231]

Bigred,
Its still civil war, just another European version. Very nice. H

 

[kenysd]

drooollllll

 

[Adam1stVa]

All of these are crammed into my study. My wife also allows a Mississippi rifle over the fireplace and a muster roll displayed in the foyer, but here is what is in my haven.

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I like the way you have paired up the Martini Henry and the P53. So many Martini Henry bayonets are being put forth for sale as for the P53. Look at the difference in the length especially.

 

[Adam1stVa]

I'd like to see some pics of some quality HOME displays. No store displays, no picnic table spreads, no "line 'em up on the floor and take a pic" displays. I really want to see some actual well thought out home displays, either in your man cave or home office or den. Have you dedicated a room that others can "ooh and ahh?" Show us how artistic you all are when it comes to displaying your wares! Are your muskets hung? Do you have them on stands or framed? I'd have posted this under contemporary photos, but it's all about the weapons and how you show them. Let's see it!

Mine's not as extensive as these others. My primary focus is on the Pattern 1853 Enfield and all the pieces parts of that rifle musket that were recovered from battlefields. The vast majority of my collection is not displayed - don't want to "push too many buttons" at one time, if you know what I mean. LOL

 

[Bigred]

Mine's not as extensive as these others. My primary focus is on the Pattern 1853 Enfield and all the pieces parts of that rifle musket that were recovered from battlefields. The vast majority of my collection is not displayed - don't want to "push too many buttons" at one time, if you know what I mean. LOL

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love the enfield,how tight the lock plate fits the woodwork lovely craftsmanship on what was considered mass produced rifle

 

[Bigred]

I have recently bought this one with bayonet 1863 tower and crown on the lock plate,birmingham made ,just has the name Rosies stamped under the barrel itself...the bayonet was made by chavasse for a confederate contract in 1861

 

[Adam1stVa]

Mine's not as extensive as these others. My primary focus is on the Pattern 1853 Enfield and all the pieces parts of that rifle musket that were recovered from battlefields. The vast majority of my collection is not displayed - don't want to "push too many buttons" at one time, if you know what I mean. LOL

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That spike on the second shelf up from the bottom was given to me back in the early 80s by an old collector. He said he uncovered it at the Gosport Navy Yard, where the C.S.S. Virginia was scuttled. It is bronze, hand shaped square, and 5 inches long. I consider it a real treasure for me, now the old collector, to pass on. The hammer I found at Drewry's Bluff back in the fifties. The saber scabbard tip and the bayonet section I inherited from my Dad. My point being, we are just the keepers of the larder! Hopefully, we each have someone lined up to treasure our treasures as much as we do beyond their monetary value.

 

[Adam1stVa]

I have recently bought this one with bayonet 1863 tower and crown on the lock plate,birmingham made ,just has the name Rosies stamped under the barrel itself...the bayonet was made by chavasse for a confederate contract in 1861View attachment 361548

Mind me asking what you gave for it?

 

[Adam1stVa]

love the enfield,how tight the lock plate fits the woodwork lovely craftsmanship on what was considered mass produced rifle

And that gun has had no "restoration" done to it whatsoever. The last handmade military issue rifle in the world.

 

[OldSarge79]

I like the way you have paired up the Martini Henry and the P53. So many Martini Henry bayonets are being put forth for sale as for the P53. Look at the difference in the length especially.

You are so right.
Several years ago, I spotted a Martini-Henry bayonet for sale in a local antiques mall, with stalls rented by various dealers. The tag on it said, "Civil War bayonet, $65." When I told the store cashier that it was a British bayonet from the 1870's, she replied, "Well, that's in the same era." It really bothered me. That mall went out of business about a year later, hopefully before some poor tourist got schnookered.

 

[Adam1stVa]

You are so right.
Several years ago, I spotted a Martini-Henry bayonet for sale in a local antiques mall, with stalls rented by various dealers. The tag on it said, "Civil War bayonet, $65." When I told the store cashier that it was a British bayonet from the 1870's, she replied, "Well, that's in the same era." It really bothered me. That mall went out of business about a year later, hopefully before some poor tourist got schnookered.

I know I have corrected at least 30 sellers on Ebay.

 

[OldSarge79]

I know I have corrected at least 30 sellers on Ebay.

Thank you for doing that. Some of those people need to be kicked off ebay and into the nearest jail.

 

[vmicraig]

this is some of my gear but not civil war...I am new to the civil war scene
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That's a lotta picklehaubs!

 

[Bigred]

Mind me asking what you gave for it?

guns on the whole fetch hi prices compared to the US,i think we pay in pounds what you would pay in dollars...it was £700

 

[Package4]

guns on the whole fetch hi prices compared to the US,i think we pay in pounds what you would pay in dollars...it was £700

If that is an import piece to the Americas, you paid way under value, today's exchange rate is 1.27 so you gave just under $900 for a $2,500 gun.....