Browse all categories
110 Show & Tell Posts Today

Collectors Weekly

Blunderbuss2

Collections

Blunderbuss2 has not created any collections yet. What are collections?

Favorite Categories

blunderbuss2

St. Maarten, Neth. Antilles

Collect antique weapons & shoot them.

Posts

See all 83
Coke hour-glass - Coca-Colain Coca-Cola
3 days ago
Harpers Ferry musket - Military and Wartimein Military and Wart…
10 days ago
Signs of the Caribes - Photographsin Photographs
15 days ago
Crown & Anchour - Gamesin Games
18 days ago
Voo doo - Photographsin Photographs
22 days ago
Artillery & Ammunition of the Civil War - Booksin Books
25 days ago
Amer. Rifleman 1964 bound edition - Booksin Books
27 days ago
Gas station - Petrolianain Petroliana
28 days ago
Confederate Arms - Booksin Books
1 month ago
SIGNS OF THE CARIBES - Photographsin Photographs
1 month ago

Comments

  1. Observe & learn. One can only get advice(guesses) from the pics & descriptions given or received but it is nothing like an on the spot inspection.
  2. Thanks everybody. Phil/D/A/M, when you have too much time on you hands, look around & invent. I'm an inventor by nature, just haven't made much at it. Inventing is the easy part. Protecting your inven...
  3. Almost positive it isn't U.S. My guess is around 6-8 m/m rifle.
  4. Mani, read #6 & ck my site. Actually it is the lobster. Actually, I tried & tried to get 1 hr. out of the blud-clot thing but the best I could get was 37 mins.. Size of the glass beads (yes, glass bea...
  5. I imagine the old cigar store indians were harder & more expensive to make & probably many stores didn't have room for them, so these would be more practical and fewer would have survived. I would lik...
  6. Me not know, mon. I was just pointing out a historical fact. Look on my site & you will find 1 almost identical made of ivory. The top of mine was stuck really tight & I left it rather than take a cha...
  7. How tall are they? I'm just guessing at 1 mtre. Solid wood & not ply? Not your usual cigar store indian but don't have those subtle Oriental features that modern Oriental fakes have. Can you guess at ...
  8. Well, if it is really for snuff, remember tobacco wasn't known until after 1492.
  9. Hey, BHock, this kept me awake last nite. Well, it might have been that slice of 2 wk old goat cheese I ate before bed. If I give it another 2 wks, maybe it will substitute for the mescal, & I will so...
  10. Mani, those can be some peaceful times to reflect. Hard to reproduce in these days. can't live in the past, but can sure miss them. I often think I know & appreciate those days more than the present. ...
  11. I might add for those uninformed, early bayonets had that "L" pattern away from the muzzle because it was painful to load a muzzle-loaded with a bayonet almost in line with the bore. Even the first br...
  12. That eliminates muzzle-loaders & guns up to about 1890. My guess is from then to maybe 1915. The "Limies" made some kind of like this even until maybe after the ban, but I don't recognize the "Z" lock...
  13. Thanks E4B, we can call this solved now! I was really at a loss until you solved it. Now we know it is "fur-in".
  14. Eureka! It's something BHock made up to drive us nuts, & succeeded in my case. Now trying to reason it out. The socket with snaps is leather, which rules out something tall stuck in it, so it isn...
  15. Brought back some old memories. Used to get our meal from an old mill. As a teenager, got to be good friends with the old man & he would tell of the days when his mill was also the stage stop. He had ...
  16. The Geneva Convention did ban triangular bayonets, knives etc.. I believe that was after WWI. This looks like for an earlier gun, maybe muzzle loader. What is the dia. of the hole?
  17. It is a Kahlua bottle.
  18. The direction the pistol is pointed is symbolic with what we now know about dangers of smoking.
  19. I suggest that you mark the trees in that neighbourhood with your scent.
  20. I don't see anything like that. Close only counts in horseshoes & hand grenades. I'll lube the gears a little later with a few Coronas & see what visions they conjure up.
  21. Those are tacks in the horse shoe leather & something round, like a bottle obviously was set there, shown by the discolouration. The rest has me stumped.
  22. I'm almost down to the catch-all. Left by aliens to confuse us.
  23. With you, BHock, "still waters run deep".
  24. I can always count on BHock to give me sleepless nites! Obviously the flipper things rotate to hold down the base of something thin that will not have a lot of pressure put on it. That's about as far...
  25. You have "The Real Thing"! Congrats.
  26. It's sure rare in my house!
  27. Guess to make a noise when the ball went thru that hole. Are the holes in the center tapered/funnel shaped as that would cause a fast "dribble" that would stop the ball & make it fall out & it would t...
  28. The U.S. gov't. encouraged hunting them to extinction in order to starve the Indians. Well documented & worked.
  29. Most of the ones found in the former Confederacy were like yours, especially #2 & 3. I found one made of quartzite but of course it didn't have that smooth surface of the others.
  30. Those are really nice. They were a prize find when we were kids. We called them ax heads.
  31. Actually, I posted my crabby friend/fiend with a joint in it's claws as "Stone(d) Crab" some time back. You must be on 6 month delay. Guess I'm going to watch what I have in the background in the futu...
  32. Actually I wish he had as I don't think it was all BS. Well, it's time I go hang upside down on the rafters & get some sleep.
  33. Bellin, I have a question. I seldom ck ebay, but when I do, I see things with prices that would never be brought at a real auction. Do people maybe bid on their own items or is their price what they h...
  34. Bell, I knew I could count on you. Thanks.
  35. Actually Tuba, hard liquor hasn't passed my lips since 1991. A few Coronas, yes. I found that neither me or others liked me when I drank hard. It was a relief to all parties concerned when I quit. Afr...
  36. I seem to be losing a lot of friends lately! At least I'm not paranoid. I KNOW I'm being followed!
  37. I was wondering about the buffalo as they aren't known for friendliness! Only been around a few but the 1st warning was not turn your back on them.
  38. Actually TubeA, I think the angle of the dangle on the considible for the identifit is slightly wrong on the monadnock is about 1 1/4 degrees off in the example you gave. Giving credit where due, the ...
  39. That's, v-ass. You have a good memory for that running joke & glad you appreciated it. Love.
  40. I think it would be a lot less painful to use the iron form rather nail the soles on with your foot in the shoe. E4B, maybe, if you have a peg-leg.
  41. Sa wha?
  42. I'm still pondering over #4 and the "love button" not working.
  43. Leather & the Civil War: Lack of cured leather is counted as one of the major causes of the South losing. The even resorted to cotton to make harnesses etc. which wouldn't last or hold up to hauling s...
  44. Sure you can post it but I'm mostly into antiques.
  45. Monkey see, monkey do. Could be in the food.
  46. Yeah. I believe the shoe shine one had a step-down to hold the front of the heel to steady things while shining.
  47. Looks like new cane/wicker. that is worth $50-75 right there. (see my post "Don't do it"). My guess is 1880's thru 1920's.
  48. I know that name from somewhere. Senility has it's advantages, - I just don't remember what they are.
  49. The wood hasn't been touched? Nice. Must have been in a time-capsule.
  50. Have you goggled that. I've heard the name Mt. Airy & seem to connect it with the south for some reason. Maybe GA, AL or TN?
    51. See more

Loves

See all 1836
Antique tiger oak medicine/ barber shop cabinet. 1880 Home Hand Book of Hygiene and Medicine Wooden Cigar Indians DYNASTY?? chinese Snuff Coral & Jade Bottle with Ivory spoon What Dynasty??? need info on this HR bustle lady stein... HELP! Waterhead & Hoag Pin coca cola calendar coca cola tin sign coca cola glass sign Shakespeare Letter Opener stepinup LEYENDECKER 1944 WAR BONDS GENERALS Belgian antique twisted coca-cola bottle - French and Dutch Bakelite horse gambling game I played with my granpa Militairy Timex watch Kralik Purple threaded vase Boheimian?? Green and Gold Cornucopia Vase on tall Stem

Likes

See all 164
Unknown ancient weight? Square three dots Bronze Sculpture? 18" Tall Folk Art, Wood Carving of a Black Panther (Hand Painted) Antique Victorian Agate Chalcedony 15k Pendant Brooch 44mm x 30mm what is this anyone no? Arabia - Wall-candleholder Trick Coin Machined From Two Coins The penny that has me baffeld? Pope poems by Alexander Pope I like it, look very old 1862 Confererate Money Need help !!! 1951 - Martin Aircraft Advertisement Bizarre Sculptures - Saint Figures Carrying a Toaster and a Cactus Unsigned Pottery Bulbous Vase Seth Thomas clock. Looking for info Oil Jar?? My coke collection.... So far Anyone know anything about this?