Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Cap'n'Ball Cash.

Now that's a find worthy of Antiques Roadshow.
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6 comments:

Anonymous said...

don't we all wish we had something as nice sitting in the top of the clostet! Beautiful set of pistols!

11:18 AM, September 29, 2009
Andrew said...

[i]She slipped the case [containing two Civil War-era revolvers] into a sturdy Lord & Taylor shopping bag and took a taxi six blocks to meet appraiser Greg Martin in midtown Manhattan, N.Y.[/]

Wouldn't that make her a felon in NYC?

1:39 PM, September 29, 2009
Tam said...

Not sure if cap-and-ball revolvers are covered by New Yawk City's inane anti-Irish gun laws.

2:43 PM, September 29, 2009
Matthew said...

Even if they technically aren't per statute, like flintlock muskets they're certainly criminalized under the "Bloomberg corollary" to NYC law.

3:42 PM, September 29, 2009
staghounds said...

Cool!

They never tell in these articles that commission will be a third, and that the buyer will pay another 20% or so.

The tax man may take a chunk, too- they are inherited, but I expect that since she held them and didn't list them in the estate, she'll have to cough up a bit.

She should have put them on Gunbroker...

6:33 PM, September 29, 2009
John A said...

Heh, coincidence strikes... This year's second show of the UK Antiques Roadshow (season 32, show 2, early September) features a cautionary tale about almost the same model, purchased by the show's expert, who found out it was a fake after he bought it - an Italian-made reproduction someone went to great pains to modify to appear antique.

10:53 PM, September 29, 2009

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