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1862 CS Identified Richmond Rifle
Guns International #: 100784968 Seller's Inventory #: 95
Category: Civil War Rifles - Antique Rifles - Percussion
Seller's Information
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Seller: keepperd
Member Since: 7/2/12
First Name: Douglas
Last Name: Keepper
State: Texas
Country: United States
Phone: (210) 896-4904
Number of Active Listings: 2
Total Number of Listings: 222
Seller: Private Seller
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
3 days
Payment Types Accepted: Certified Check or Money Order
Description:
SOLD! Purchased this rifle from Champion Hill Civil War Relics below is the write up:
"Most Historic, Rare ID'ed Richmond Rifle, 1862-dated, Exclusively ID'ed to Pvt./Sgt. P. W. Ross, Company B, of the 6th Missouri (Colonel Coffee's) Confederate Cavalry One of the RARE FEW CS Government Shipments of Weapons to the Trans-Mississippi Theater
100% "Textbook" & GORGEOUS Richmond Rifle
"P W Ross" Carved LARGE on Both Sides of Stock, Acquired from the Family at last Fall's Tulsa, OK Show, and with ONLY ONE "P W Ross" in all CS Records...Kind of makes it EASY for it's Identification & Provenance
The 6th Missouri was usually called "Coffee's Missouri Cavalry" after their famed leader who founded and led them, or called the "3rd" (then "11th" and other Unit Designations Missouri CS Cavalry) but the CS War Department always referred to them as the "6th Missouri"
The men--and THIS Richmond Rifle-- Fought HARD and Continuously from 1862 until the "Bitter End" with CS Generals Shelby, Hindman, Marmaduke, & Price
EVEN with Quantrill's Raiders & Stand Waite's Cherokees!
Truly Most Historic, Museum-QUALITY CS ID'ed Rifle It is so hard for me, as a dealer AND collector, to have such historically rich beyond measure, RARE and ID'ed CS-made weaponry and the bloody heroic history the Confederate soldier's service with the weapon embody...and to have to SELL IT. I can't afford to "keep them all"! Being purchased at the annual and famed Tulsa, Oklahoma Gun Show in the fall of last year, the Ross family descendents sold this rifle to a dealer from Tennessee, and I LEAPED at the chance to buy it, when I hastily looked-up the history behind "P. W. Ross" and his 6h Missouri Cavalry on my iPhone at the Franklin Show. This literally "textbook" 1862-dated GORGEOUS Richmond Armory Rifle--all the "U" barrel-band stamps WAY off-center to the band-springs, date and CS Richmond, VA font STRONG and correct, brass un-marked buttplate, brass Richmond-style screw-in nose-cap, killer Richmond ramrod, housing for the "medium hump" Richmond lockplate with NO recesses for the US Model 1855 Maynard Primer firing lockplate, the very smoothed-over backstock, cruder CS/Richmond quality stock-wood...it's literally a "textbook" specimen straight out of Paul Davies' "The CS Richmond Armory" reference book! [See excerpts below!] She's fully-functional, all markings vividly seen, "ATTIC-MINTY" condition in that ALL the iron on it is the richest, deep, dark chocolate-brown patina evenly all over the entire weapon! There's only the most minor wear, dings, bumps to be expected from a hard-fighting mounted rifleman that Pvt. Ross was and endured for 2 solid years of combat service, and NO CHIPS and NO CRACKING on the stock! The UN-FAKABLE bolster-wear attests to it's 2 full years of combat service as a hard-fighting "veteran"...you CAN NOT FAKE IT! As usual, the rear long-range sight and the rear sling swivel are missing--good luck finding true CS-used rifles with them!--otherwise ALL complete, ALL Richmond, with NO DAMAGE, NO REPAIRS, FULLY-FUNCTIONAL....nothing but the history of a brave soldier and his compatriots in the dreaded "border states" where battles and skirmishes would later turn more to REVENGE and unleashed HATRED in the Missouri/Kansas region, which included Native American Indians fighting alongside BOTH the North AND the South. For it was in "bleeding Kansas" that in the 1850's, pro-slavery and pro-abolitionists formed militia's and "no-quarter bushwhackers" that hung, tortured, killed each other, producing Kansas' famed/infamous John Brown, to lead his ill-fated raid to arm and free slaves by taking the US Harpers Ferry Arsenal in 1859...THE US Harpers Ferry Arsenal that a Col. Robert E. Lee led a detachment of US Marines to flush-out John Brown and his band....THE US Harpers Ferry that would be CAPTURED with EVERYTHING in it shipped to Richmond to for THE Richmond Armory that MADE THIS RIFLE !!! As I said....THIS RIFLE IS ALL HISTORY along with the RARITY and GORGEOUS BEAUTY!
Credit/Source of above to Champion Hill Relics.
More photos on request. Also have copies of the enlistment paperwork of P. W. Ross.
SOLD
Curio/Relic: Yes
Antique: Yes