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04-18-2005, 10:18 PM | #1 |
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Jeez, I donno pete... I'm kinda liking it. I guess if you have to scratch one up, this would be the appropriate way to do it (reminds me somewhat of the Borchardt and 1902 Carbine at the Norton Gallery). A first class job. Without digging through my boxes for my Naval Reference books, can anyone identify the ships?
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I wonder why they didn't straw the trigger on this 1908 navy?
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I like it too, wonder if Hugh will
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04-18-2005, 11:12 PM | #5 |
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Looks like it started out as a M1908 Navy...
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04-18-2005, 11:50 PM | #6 |
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I liket the grips and mag base. I can tell you from experience that ivory grips feel really good for shooting.
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04-19-2005, 12:30 AM | #7 |
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This is an excellent piece! Engraving is marvelous.
Excellent!
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Have run across a couple of these over the years. The engraving is like a signature and I believe they were all done by the same person. The last one I saw was in Tidewater VA and it came out of the estate of a retired Navy officer who had served as the Navy liaison to the Army in Hamburg in 1946-47.
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I LOVE IT! Especially those beautiful grips & mag bottom! I too would like to know if the ships are German or Allied?
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My guess would be that they are an artist's concept of German Pocket Battleships. The angle of the prow and the cylindrical shape of the forward superstructure and bridge, and pylon type masts tends to lead to this. The rake of the funnels(smoke stacks) isn't correct. German pocket battleships usually have a single funnel, which is vertical.Really not accurate enough to say for absolute certain. Just an educated guess.
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It really don't make no never mind.
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Hey Tom, Spoken like a true "Bubble Head".
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Found my German Warship Identification Guide 1900-1945. Neither of these ships are in it. All the pocket battleships were single stacks. The superstructures aren't even close. Perhaps they are US or British? Maybe representing ships the prior owner actually served on? I'm not convinced these are fanciful renderings. I'm betting they are actual ships (I base this on too much detail).
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Hi
The only thing I can add is that the firing pin bar is a post-1916 one,else than the gun.
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man! If I bought every gun I wanted, my wife would be broke!
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Rod, If I bought every gun I wanted, my wife would understand ... why she had to rip my arms out of their sockets....
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