I'll pay you for a couple of those(can't find a decent one anywhere over here!)Originally Posted by hunter63
I'll pay you for a couple of those(can't find a decent one anywhere over here!)
Recession; A period when you go without something your Grandparents never heard of.
Winnie - do you want full sized, or a UCO style lantern?
Full sized. I can only find cheapo chinee knock-offs over here.
Recession; A period when you go without something your Grandparents never heard of.
I saw this.......
Winnie, I think we can work something out, but they are at home, in Wisconsin, and I'm not.
I will PM you when we get back from Louisiana.
I do have quite a few........I sure I can spare a couple of nice ones.
Besides JC doesn't seem to wanna bite on a swap for the soward, LOL
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Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
Member Wahoo Killer knives club....#27
lol,, i have lots of flashlights ,, dont need lanterns
Ooo thankyou!
Recession; A period when you go without something your Grandparents never heard of.
Just for clarification...the Civil War was in the 1860's....I would think it chronilogically improbable that your grandmothers brother-in-law could've been in the Civil War. He would've most likely had to have been born in the 1840's....my grandmother was born in 1926...
The way of the canoe is the way of the wilderness and of a freedom almost forgotten- Sigurd Olson
Give me winter, give me dogs... you can keep the rest- Knud Rasmussen
(to the tune of "Bad Boys"lol,, i have lots of flashlights ,, dont need lanterns
Bad boys, bad boys....What are ya gonna do when the batteries run dry,....Bad boys, bad boys......
LOL, now the tune is in my head all day.......
Geezer Squad....Charter Member #1
Evoking the 50 year old rule...
First 50 years...worried about the small stuff...second 50 years....Not so much
Member Wahoo Killer knives club....#27
Mine too, Thanks
I would be interested in making you an offer on the sword
it still available?
The post is almost two years old, and the OP has been banned for quite some time.
Just having read some of the back and forth over who the sword belonged to, while it may sound like blasphemy it is certainly possible that "grandma was wrong" people often don't have the most accurate memories for their own things that pertain to them let alone other people. For example my grandmother gave me my great grandfather's chess set and explained it was handmade from over 100 years ago assuming she was right and looking to get it insured I researched it further and found it was a dime a dozen and only 40 years old. That being said a number of things may have occurred (note I am not a member of these fraternities and this is all speculation) his dress sword was damaged and he received a new one at a later point, or perhaps the details on the blade were etched on much later during some type of "restoration" (I have seen this done before), or the sword was made as a commemorative after or near his death at a later period and given to his wife as a gift. It's a very cool sword and if I were you I wouldn't be so quick to throw away family history for a few dollars or even a few hundred. After all it's a part of your family's story.
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