Pressman
12-15-2019, 08:30 AM
I met Santa yesterday, and yes he is real.
I had been trying to talk myself out of going to a gunshow in St. Paul. After much back and forth I decided I needed a day out. When I got there I found out it was $10 just to park and no alternative within a mile. My big truck just barely fit in the ramp.
Once inside I walked the rows of tables finding nothing till I got to the last table. There was the most beautiful K-31 rifle I had ever seen. It's was still there when I left. But, there was this little scale, the Brown & Sharp in near perfect condition with all it's weights.
I have been wondering if I were ever going to find one, now after 20 years of searching there it was. It completes the trifecta of scales in the collection offered in the Modern Bond catalogs from 1921 till sometime into the 1930's. More research is needed as the M-B catalogs are notoriously difficult to accurately date.
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I had been trying to talk myself out of going to a gunshow in St. Paul. After much back and forth I decided I needed a day out. When I got there I found out it was $10 just to park and no alternative within a mile. My big truck just barely fit in the ramp.
Once inside I walked the rows of tables finding nothing till I got to the last table. There was the most beautiful K-31 rifle I had ever seen. It's was still there when I left. But, there was this little scale, the Brown & Sharp in near perfect condition with all it's weights.
I have been wondering if I were ever going to find one, now after 20 years of searching there it was. It completes the trifecta of scales in the collection offered in the Modern Bond catalogs from 1921 till sometime into the 1930's. More research is needed as the M-B catalogs are notoriously difficult to accurately date.
253020
253021
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