Reading Material

[RSMorris]

I have my reading cut out for me....

 

[JOHN42768]

I have my reading cut out for me....

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I see you bought the best of the best. Now that you have little money left, spent your time going through and reading the parts that you are interested in. No one could begin to remember it all. Enjoy

 

[RSMorris]

I see you bought the best of the best. Now that you have little money left, spent your time going through and reading the parts that you are interested in. No one could begin to remember it all. Enjoy

lol, ain't that the truth. I have 7 muskets, so going to start with the history of all 'em.

 

[UCVRelics]

Those 3 have a lot of info. They are 3 of the over 80 books I lost in the 2019 flood and have not replaced yet.

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

Excellent, excellent resource, for sure.

 

[RSMorris]

Excellent, excellent resource, for sure.

Just thumbing through it, it is mindboggling the research the author put into it.

 

[Lanyard Puller]

Whatever the books cost, you will get it back in your future purchases from the excellent information you wisely purchased.

 

[RSMorris]

Whatever the books cost, you will get it back in your future purchases from the excellent information you wisely purchased.

I'm still learnin' about my past purchases ...

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

Just thumbing through it, it is mindboggling the research the author put into it.

There are untold numbers of potential or even finished but not published books where many years of careful research never blossomed into published works that are available to us (and all collectors). Knowledge earned over years of study and research lost in some dusty trunk in an attic, or lost to the flames of a trash barrel or burial in some dump.
It is wonderful that this author's work is available to us and to the future!

 

[coldjl]

There are untold numbers of potential or even finished but not published books where many years of careful research never blossomed into published works that are available to us (and all collectors). Knowledge earned over years of study and research lost in some dusty trunk in an attic, or lost to the flames of a trash barrel or burial in some dump.
It is wonderful that this author's work is available to us and to the future!

Does Vol 3 include carbines? Descriptions only seem to cover rifled and smoothbore muskets. Thank you.

 

[RSMorris]

Does Vol 3 include carbines? Descriptions only seem to cover rifled and smoothbore muskets. Thank you.

Just thumbing through it I don't see anything about carbines.

 

[Cornpone and Molasses]

I have my reading cut out for me....

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I'm just curious is there a Volume 4?
Looks like a great series!

 

[RSMorris]

I'm just curious is there a Volume 4?
Looks like a great series!

i haven't seen a volume 4.

 

[limberbox]

I'm just curious is there a Volume 4?
Looks like a great series!

George Moller passed away last year. I believe I read somewhere that he had been working on a volume that would have covered patent arms purchased by the government, but I do not know how far along that was or whether anyone else will try to finish it.

He had begun collecting Springfield Armory arms and then later got interested in contract arms from the Civil War. His very extensive collection was sold through a series of RIA "premier auctions" beginning last September. I was fortunate enough to obtain an 1850-dated M. 1843 Hall-North carbine from his collection.

Here is a link to a short RIA youtube video with excerpts from a 2015 interview of him.

 

[JOHN42768]

His books are so detailed, it is hard to imagine the time it took to document as he did

 

[RSMorris]

His books are so detailed, it is hard to imagine the time it took to document as he did

I agree, I've never taken so many notes.

 

[limberbox]

My ancestor's cavalry regiment received its arms from the St. Louis Arsenal and had at least 70 .58 M.1841's in the later half of 1862. Through a combination of Moller's detailed chapter on M. 1841's, and McAulay's several pages in Rifles of the U.S. Army, I was able to determine that the bulk of the M.1841's receiving Colt long-range conversions (reamed out to .58, re-rifled, rear sight of the Colt M. 1855 carbine pattern, and a ring lug for a Collins & Co. sword bayonet) were Whitneys, and that 8400 of the 11,368 altered were shipped to the St. Louis Arsenal between May 4 and June 4, 1862. Through Moller's detailed description I was able to confirm that a seven-groove, .58 Whitney at a Missouri gun dealer was one of the Colt conversions shipped to the St. Louis Arsenal, right down to the #5240 reinspection serial and the "200" re-proof stamp on the left breech flat.