Antique Firearm collecting

[Jim McArthur]

Hi. All.
I have be collecting for about 40 years my collection covers from 1750 to 1900 and includes India pattern and various other muskets, flint and percussion Shot guns by Henry Nock etc, pepper pot revolvers, various other single and double barrel pistols, bayonets, swords, flasks both powder and shot, shot and powder measures, cartridge reloading tools, nipple wrenches etc, military issued tools from India pattern to SA80. military issue fighting knives and folding knives, etc etc.
Air rifles and pistols: air gun collection includes: Webley Service with all three calibre barrels and other Webley's to 1980, Colchester Gamekeeper no: 00012, W.R Pape Newcastle, several BSA's from around 1906 to 2000 several types of Webley air pistol from 1930's to 2005 including some from their museum when they went bust.
If you are starting a circle or group on antique militatia and arms collecting count me in.

Hi, Fronteria! That's quite a collection(s).

I'd also be proud to be part of any collectors' group or circle we can get started.

Jim

[greenshoots]

i have narrowed my collecting to cav rifles in the transition period from musket to bolt action only about 30 years 1860 - 1890 kind keeps my spending down.

viv

[tikkathree]

Smallbore military training rifles and their fullbore counterparts generally pre-WWII. All FAC rated and held on "collect and occasional use".