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Regtl. Quartermaster Shiloh 2020
Asst. Regtl. Quartermaster Antietam 2021
Regtl. Quartermaster Stones River / Franklin 2022
- Joined
- May 7, 2016
- Location
- Alabama
Well, Doc Gary has blown my mind with this one. He told me he was working on a secret project and today it was revealed. If you remember back last fall when the cannon ball was found in the black walnut tree in Missouri, Doc. Gary bought a huge slab of the tree to make witness pens. The slab of wood was thick enough to make a gun stock sooooo what did he do. Had C. Sharp Arms make him a custom Sharps and he could not wait to share it with me. He even had them custom engrave the butt plate. This is one fantastic piece and there not another Sharps or any other gun that I know of where the wood is from a CW Witness tree. So here it is. I ask him if mine was in the mail
Recent Find Civil War Witness Pen From Missouri Tree With Cannon Ball | Uniforms & Relics
Well, It didn't take Doc. Gary long to snag wood from the recently found tree in Independence Missouri that had the cannon ball in-bedded in it. The guy that cut the tree and found the ball sold doc a huge slab of the tree and he has already made a pen from it and its a beauty. Mine is in the...
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