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To: IronJack

“But that doesn’t mean it’s been sitting against that tree since 1882.”

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Exactly! Someone could have left it there, for whatever reason, at some point during the 20th century. We’ll probably never know the exact year.


58 posted on 01/15/2015 8:57:54 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Everytime the cash register rings in a gun store, a Founding Father gets his wings.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

When we lived in Yorktown Virginia in 1960 I bought a pistol that had been found on the Yorktown Battlefield. It was at a yard sale and I paid $10. The barrel was missing but the carved stock and brass side plates still look good, weathered but good. I took it to an antique gun dealer and he said it had been made between 1730 and 1760 in France. It was found in a very remote part of the battlefield I guess that it had laid there since the Revolutionary War, possibly beside the body of a soldier.


68 posted on 01/15/2015 3:11:20 PM PST by Ditter
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