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[drm2m]

Everything but my CW revolvers.

 

[drm2m]

The revolvers.

 

[Virginia Dave]

The revolvers.

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Amazing thanks for sharing.

 

[vmicraig]

Looks like I'm a little late to the party! I envy you guys with wall displays. Here's a quick glimpse View attachment 363479

An appropriate response might be "Good Lord!" That's not a home display, that's a armory! Wow. Just wow.

 

[redbob]

An appropriate response might be "Good Lord!" That's not a home display, that's a armory! Wow. Just wow.

Good to see you posting again, welcome back

 

[vmicraig]

Good to see you posting again, welcome back

Thanks. Still in the UK til
2024 while my collection is back home, in storage and missing me! I've been lurking occasionally!

 

[Michael W.]

I like his works. I particularly like the Lee, Sheridan and Clerbourne busts. I imagine they are pricey, and at that size, "extra" pricey.

My statuary collection is limited but includes three 150-year old plaster pieces of work by John Rogers. My favorite, "The Council of War", features Abraham Lincoln seated with Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton and General Ulysses S. Grant. I had it professionally restored a few years ago by one of only 3 guys in the US that restore them for museums. Pricey, but well worth the expenditure.

After the war ended, Rogers produced a several sculptures that memorialized the Northern leaders of the conflict, as well as several that portrayed common soldiers, such as the 2 above my bookcase. As a monument to three sculpted figures, "The Council of War" became one of Rogers' most resonant works. The idea for the group came from Stanton.

Rogers took great care in preparing to model the three likenesses, visiting Grant and Stanton and using photographs for reference. For the assassinated president he relied entirely on photographs. The president's son Tad later wrote that his family considered "The Council of War" the most lifelike rendering of his father in sculpture. Stanton, too, congratulated the artist for surpassing any other likeness he had ever seen. Even though Rogers marketed the group at the relatively high price of $25, it was one of his most popular works. He produced three versions of the COW that show slight variations in the position of Stanton's hands and the position of his head.


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I managed to get the "Council of War" free!! My cousin found one sitting in storage in some old Doctor's offices scheduled for renovation. They were told to throw everything out, so he rescued it and gave it to me. It has little chips and dings to it, but free's not bad...

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

Looks like I'm a little late to the party! I envy you guys with wall displays. Here's a quick glimpse View attachment 363479

I think I see the Evans Model 1826 Naval pistol with the confederate bolster, which I sold to you some years ago, in that tangle.

By the way, these photos show a good example of the results of untouched aging valued by collectors - see how the wood along the barrel has shrunk over the years, and this has exposed to view the brighter metal that was hidden for many of those years under the wood - that bright line along the wood is a sign of honest and natural shrinkage, as George of the Seinfeld TV should would say.

 

[Obi1gr]

I think I see the Evans Model 1826 Naval pistol with the confederate bolster, which I sold to you some years ago, in that tangle.

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Thats actually tucked into one of the wooden drawers along with the other guns I got from you in that group....and several others

 

[DixieRifles]

like the two K98k's are also on racks above windows and doors along with items of field gear festooned on the curtain hardware; smaller items including knives and daggers are in shadow boxes like the ones below:

My brother picked up a WW2 dagger like you have but we determined it was a mixture of Wehrmacht & Luftwaffe hardware. Still a really neat dagger.

 

[Cornpone and Molasses]

After our fire just trying to find a way to display some of this in my study. Mostly Western Theater in these cases with the exception of a few pieces.

 

[RSMorris]

So far...

 

[Cornpone and Molasses]

@RSMorris Nice! Very clean and organized!

 

[RSMorris]

@RSMorris Nice! Very clean and organized!

Thank you, got to do some fixin' on the walls for past boo-boo's

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

After our fire just trying to find a way to display some of this in my study. Mostly Western Theater in these cases with the exception of a few pieces.

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really like that relic Colt 1860. Do you know where it came from?

 

[UCVRelics]

really like that relic Colt 1860. Do you know where it came from?

I do. It was dug by me in Franklin back in the early 80's

Help looking for dug pistol | Relic Hunting & Collecting

Maybe @ucvrelics or anyone else here could suggest where to find one that would display this 1860 Army nicely. I make my own but there are companies that make some nice one but they are to high for me. Could you post a photo of the serial # as this Colt looks familiar.

civilwartalk.com

 

[Kyle Kalasnik]

Mine hang up behind my bar .

Top is a 1766 Charleville .69 cal

The remaining 3 are reproductions, that I actually target shoot with and hunt with.

Pedersoli Brown Bess .75 cal (defarbed to look like a Committee of Safety)

NC/Southern Mountain Rifle .45 cal

Pedersoli Blue Ridge Rifle .50 cal

 

[redbob]

Mine hang up behind my bar .

Top is a 1766 Charleville .69 cal

The remaining 3 are reproductions, that I actually target shoot with and hunt with.

Pedersoli Brown Bess .75 cal (defarbed to look like a Committee of Safety)

NC/Southern Mountain Rifle .45 cal

Pedersoli Blue Ridge Rifle .50 cal

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Now, that's what I call a man cave.

 

[Kyle Kalasnik]

Now, that's what I call a man cave.

It's all I have. The wife, boys and mutts have taken over the rest of the house!

 

[UCVRelics]

Mine hang up behind my bar .

Top is a 1766 Charleville .69 cal

The remaining 3 are reproductions, that I actually target shoot with and hunt with.

Pedersoli Brown Bess .75 cal (defarbed to look like a Committee of Safety)

NC/Southern Mountain Rifle .45 cal

Pedersoli Blue Ridge Rifle .50 cal

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I love bars