Discussion in Rifle Country started by Drakejake, Dec 19, 2006. It sold for $40,000.1873 Springfield Trapdoor Serial Numbers. This National Arms Co derringer passed through multiple generations of the Custer family and was said to have been owned by the general himself. Appears to be all original , this 45-70 is second year production made ,serial number is 25,616. This cabine has real old age crack in stock, stock has wheather shrinkage ,has not been sanded. 1873 Springfield Carbine 45-70 Description: This 1873 Trapdoor carbine ,came off of the Blackfeet RES in Browning, Montana.4 Image (s) US Springfield 1873 Trapdoor rare original carbine made in 1875 one of only 499 made Collectors, this is an all-original Springfield 1873 Trapdoor. Full Details More from this Seller. A friend has one of these rifles with a serial number of GA Sales: 241. Joined: Messages: 826 Location: Nashville, TN.A Montana native, Ward grew up within reach of the battlefield and made visits to it. 38, Colt 1911, Sharps, And Civil War Arms.Review by Greg Smith, Photos Courtesy Heritage AuctionsDALLAS – The Michael Ward collection of Western Americana and Political works was offered at Heritage Auctions on June 19 and culminated with $864,062 in total sales.Firearms crowded the leader board and produced much of the sale total, included among the finest collection of “Custer Colts” in private hands.Ward was a collector of all-things General Armstrong Custer, the same general who met his end at the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn, romanticized in textbooks as Custer’s Last Stand and reconsidered by modern historians as an avoidable military blunder. List Of Springfield Trapdoor, Krag, Springfield 03, M-1 Garand, Colt Percussion, Colt SAA, Colt DA. Vol.1 In Good Used Condition. It’s one of 499 made that year.Seller Notes: Springfield Research Service (SRS) Serial Numbers of US Martial Arms.Kenneth practiced medicine on patients at the reservation and was a known collector of Indian-used arms, acquiring them from these families when making his rounds. Dr Kenneth Leonard purchased this US Colt Single Action Army Revolver from a family in Little Eagle, S.D., on the Standing Rock Reservation in 1962. The company’s success afforded him the opportunity to pursue other avenues of interest, including Custer artifacts and relics from the American Indian Wars, Western and American Indian art, and militaria from the post-Civil War era.The sale’s top lot had solid provenance. Ward would later become a partner in Ramco-Gershenson, a publicly traded real estate investment trust.
Springfield 1873 S Crack In StockHis entry into these homes afforded him collecting opportunities that no others had. At the same time he began to collect “Indian-used weapons and firearms,” a novelty collecting area at the time that had little market behind it. As a practicing doctor in the 1950s-60s, Leonard would visit Native American reservations to perform medicine on his patients. In the firearms world, if you say Kopec’s name, people turn their heads.”The firearm also appeared with a dated 2001 letter from Dr Kenneth Leonard, who bought the revolver from a family living in Little Eagle, S.D., on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Custer II in 1923, and then to George’s son, Lt Colonel Marvin Brice Custer, who was the General’s great-great-grand-nephew by relation.Taking $46,250 was a Henry Model 1860 repeating lever action rifle issued to the Third Veteran Volunteer Infantry.The sale’s top price of $47,500 was paid for a 7th Cavalry US Colt Single Action Army Revolver that was authenticated by John Kopec, author and scholar of Colt cavalry and artillery revolvers.Lindner said, “Having a Kopec letter on a firearm is key to helping identify these as having been used at Little Bighorn or other seminal events in our country’s history. It had descended in the Custer family from the general’s wife, Elizabeth, to George A. Adb driver for mac“You’re buying the piece itself but you’re also buying the supporting documentation”According to Kopec, Custer’s 7th Cavalry troops were issued Colt Single-Action Army Revolvers in 1874 from the Ordnance in what is called “Lot Five,” featuring those revolvers with serial numbers between 45. “With anything, a gun or any artifact, provenance is very important,” Lindner said. At $31,250 was Ed Kucera’s “Battlefront,” a 2017 oil on canvas of 40 by 60 inches.That provenance was a key factor in driving value. Acknowledged that the gun was taken at the Battle of Little Bighorn by one of their ancestors.”Fine art in Ward’s collection included a number of Western artists with Native American battle scenes. They also shortened the barrels before reissuing them, providing a point in time when many were altered. In doing so, they created a registry of those returned with indexed serial numbers. They had been manufactured in 1874 and were also accompanied by letters from Kopec.Ward had seven others, all with serial numbers in the correct range, that sold between $17,500 and $3,500.An orotone by Edward Curtis, “The Oath, Apsaroke,” measured 11 by 14 inches and sold for $30,000.Years after the war in 1893, the Ordnance Department issued a recall for the revolvers, appealing to any survivors or Native Americans that had captured any of the weapons. 45 caliber Single Action Army Revolvers with four-digit serial numbers placing them in the range of Custer’s 7th Cavalry troops and among those possibly used at Little Bighorn. The group sold for $5,250.Of note was a singular shell casing believed to be from Custer’s Remington. Other items recovered from the battlefield were found in a lot, including a 7th Cavalry hat or collar insignia, a small piece of fabric likely from a uniform, and a large iron trade arrow point recovered from Reno’s retreat route. The spoon sold for $5,750. The auction house noted that three warrior artists who used the thunderbird as a name glyph were known to have been with Sitting Bull at Little Bighorn, including No Two Horns, Swift Dog and Red Horse. All prices reported include buyer’s premium. The casing was previously in the collection of the late Custer author John Carroll and was one of the prized pieces in his collection.Heritage’s next Americana & Political sale featuring the Mahoney Collection of George Washington inaugural buttons will take place September 25-26. It is my personal opinion this shell casing was owned by General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorn.” Custer was known to have used brass shell casings for his rifle. All other shell casings were made of copper. He wrote, “I personally have seen more than 2,000 shells found at the Custer Battle in the last 15 years and no other shell casings of different calibers have been found which were made of brass. The original excavator, Keith McDougal Jr, said he found it at a known Indian position, which invites theories as to whether the rifle was scavenged and taken by the Native Americans in battle.
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