![]() The reason is simple as Willie Sutton said when he was asked why he robbed banks,”Because that’s where the money is”. Sample Ram-Line rifle stock, M-98 Mauser Sample Ram-Line rifle stock, on a Swedish M-38 6.5x55. Sample Ram-Line rifle stock, Interarm Mark-X Mauser Sample Ram-Line rifle stock, Mauser M-98 Scout in 308. And like Arnold Rivers in Piper’s story, a faker confronted with this would be “dug in behind (his) innocent-purchase-and-sale-in-good-faith Maginot Line” of “caveat emptor”.Įvery field of collecting attracts fakers, forgers, and crooks. Sample Ram-Line rifle stock, Remington M-870. around as “decorators” at the time that sacrificed their barrels, or at least the last nine inches or so, to pull off this scam. ![]() There were plenty of dragoon carbines and etc. North & Cheney M1799 flintlock pistol was another popular “fake”, made from a French Charleville 1777 pistol by replacing the barrel with a longer one It got to the point that the supply of actual “unfaked” M1842s was substantially reduced, and there were more phony Palmettos floating around than were ever produced between 18. Mostly by taking a worn Aston and stamping it with phony Palmetto markings. Beam Piper wrote a mystery novel, Murder in the Gunroom, that was largely about gun faking īack then, the favorite fake was “converting” an M1842 Aston military percussion pistol to the rarer Palmetto Arsenal (Southern) version. I’ve wound up gnawing a fist, more than a few times, trying not to laugh out loud at what some folks have brought home, in all innocence. The forgers world is nuts… You’ve got stuff like that Luger Ian showed us the other day, where you really, really have to know your stuff, and then… There’s the other end of it, where guys are selling and buying stuff that’s not even remotely credible. I would break your heart, telling you what I’ve been shown by folks who are sure they’ve got something super-special–One guy proudly showed me his Krag-Jorgensen that was “…at Little Big Horn…”. There are some really bad forgers out there, and a bunch of credulous people they victimize. I swear to God, the damn letter was done on a freakin’ Selectric typewriter or daisy-wheel printer, and was so far off of what would have been used by some clerk doing the souvenir letters as to be laughable, in and of itself. Guy tried selling me a “tanker Garand” one time, supposedly with WWII provenance from his “…uncle was issued it with his Pershing, and he took it to D-Day…”. You probably don’t want to know what I’ve seen for sale at some local gun shows, over the years…
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