Guns as art
 

The Old Reliable, the gun that won the West, and the other Old Reliable.
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At the risk of being nosey , what’s your Sharps ? Original , C Sharps or Shiloh ?

It is so nice to see these classic American pieces of history displayed in an artistic and tactful manner.
I believe any American gun that somebody thinks is worthy of sharing pictures with others who appreciate these old beauties, should present them in an artistic manner and not on a tailgate or laid out across the powerplant of a Maserati or Porsche.





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The Sharps is an original 50/70 Carbine. Works great. I killed a buffalo with it.

Wow, if that old guy could talk! Like an old friend said, "We love the old guns because they harbor old men's souls!"

A couple more views from my living room.
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The Winchester is a circa 1900 Saddle Ring Carbine, and it's a shooter.

While a 12 gauge Lifter rests at the fireplace.
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Todd, your single right..............:rolleyes:

No, me and my bride are going on 45 years. Lucky in love, married to the most perfect woman I have ever met.
As a side note; The old lifter is leaning against the fireplace, right where she placed it. Next stop, up on a wall. Just a well worn old 12 gauge, but old lifters make great wall art.
BTW, last night was one of those 3rd glass nights, where I usually try to just read - not post - but it looks like I didn't cause any major damage ; - )

P.S. to the above. This is the room where we watch television. What's not shown, is the coffee table in front of the couch, with a couple of vintage pistolas from the late 1800s.
My wife calls it "playing cowboy". Dinner, a glass of wine, and an old western from the 50s/60s makes a fine evening.

to keep with the theme - shouldn't that be a glass of rot gut whiskey? :rolleyes:

:cheers::cheers::cheers:

I must disagree. The "gun that won the west" wasn't some $17 Winchester, it was a $3 Civil War Springfield converted to a shotgun that the average sod buster could afford to own.

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Winchester only "won the west" in the movies and on TV. This was the conclusion at a Remington Society seminar years ago where Schuyler, Hartley & Graham shipping records being discussed showed thousands of these converted Springfields being shipped west for every Winchester, Remington or Colt.

You may have noticed the 1861 Springfield hanging on the wall, just under the Remington Rolling Block. It's a Colt, btw.

Where's the Colt .45 First Generation SAA ?

Vintage decoys are considered folk art and display nicely.

Nice birds. Mostly central flyway/Illinois birds?

Bert Graves Peoria Ill. The blacks on the right are part of my Black Duck collection, Dan English, HM Shourds, Elmer Crowell, Rhodes Treux. Have other Delaware River decoys all areas I hunted as a youngster moving around the country for work.

Does anybody have any H.H.B. or Harvey H. Brown marked decoys?





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It's a Second Generation, I think 1890s, .45 Colt, 5" bbl.
Funny thing about the SAA, it has one of the nicest trigger pulls I have seen.

real niceliving quarters you have there.....i like old guns displayed out in the open were you can see them and enjoy them....that big 50 is good medicene on anything.....charlie

Come on Todd, You know this stuff. First Generation went up to the cessation of production at the begining of WW2. 2nd Gen began, IIRC, 1957.

No tailgate. No Porsche or Maserati.

Cow Pie art?

I prefer to think of it as Great Plains Naturalism. All the great artiste’ s were masters of naturalism.

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Cow pie or is it buffalo chips?





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I believe it is bull.

Maybe I should clarify. Not the photo or the gun. Both are beautiful. I was referring to the photo background which is bull or most likely steer. Sorry if you took it the wrong way.

Nice 20 Bruce!

Yes, you're right. It's a 1st gen, but smokeless frame, which started in 1896, IIRC.
I'm certainly no expert, and am constantly learning, and sometimes relearning stuff I knew and forgot.
I may have known this, but don't remember ; )

Here's the Colt SAA, (1898) and the little S&W M 1 1/2 (3rd issue 1890)
Oh, and I had to throw in a couple of old Parkers, because this is the General Parker Discussions Forum ; )
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I usually use the game taken as a theme for my pictures. They are from the top (hopefully) H&H 20, DHE 16, Gunner's gun and the first grouse taken with it and a DHE 20. I also refer to the home page photo:)

I don't have one, but I've always thought one of these would look good on one of the walls in my cave;
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Tonight's guns. All 3 made within 15 years of each other.
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The Parker is an 0 Frame 16 gauge Fishtail Lever gun.

Posed Grade 3.

Oh, that's a very nice hammer gun!

My gun art.
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Nice! What caliber is the drilling?

thanks
It is a H. Scherping 16x16x 9.3x72r