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Thread: You better pay for that powder. Hercules 1894

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    You better pay for that powder. Hercules 1894

    One hundred and twenty nine years ago. Don't mess with the powder guys ;^)
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    HOLLYWOOD Collector Left hawg 405#, right one 315#, had my elderly neighbors granddaughter treed and why I got the call. Both charged, one from 20' and one from 40'. Thanks to the good Lord and Samuel Colt I won. May God bless our Lawmen & Soldiers!

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    $65 in 1894? Might be worth sending your “agent” to Roscoe to inquire about payment personally.
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    Ha! They wouldn’t draft that letter today for the 1/2 pound of powder, taxes and hazmat that would get you today. It would be fun to know what quantity of powder that would have gotten you back then. I’d guess several hundred pounds.

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    That's about $1400 of powder in today's money.
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    My guess would be a 50# keg.
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    Wow and to think some powder is being sold today at around $65 a pound.

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    Wow....! What a fascinating and historical document. Don't lose it! Hercules isn't around anymore, but I'll bet their successor company would love to have it to display in their office.

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    A bit of added history.... In the middle 1960s I was working as an armed guard at a defense sub-contractor's plant in Richmond, CA. The gardeners that kept the front of the buildings looking so nice were an interesting pair of old guys. One had been a minor league baseball pitcher, and the other was an immigrant from Portugal named Albano Bastos. During WW II he worked as an armed guard on the gunpowder dock in Hercules, CA. He was armed with a Colt Commando revolver.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Der Gebirgsjager View Post
    A bit of added history.... In the middle 1960s I was working as an armed guard at a defense sub-contractor's plant in Richmond, CA. The gardeners that kept the front of the buildings looking so nice were an interesting pair of old guys. One had been a minor league baseball pitcher, and the other was an immigrant from Portugal named Albano Bastos. During WW II he worked as an armed guard on the gunpowder dock in Hercules, CA. He was armed with a Colt Commando revolver.

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    Now that is interesting! I wonder if the powder makers need armed guards around their loading docks today???
    HOLLYWOOD Collector Left hawg 405#, right one 315#, had my elderly neighbors granddaughter treed and why I got the call. Both charged, one from 20' and one from 40'. Thanks to the good Lord and Samuel Colt I won. May God bless our Lawmen & Soldiers!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sasquatch-1 View Post
    My guess would be a 50# keg.
    Maybe twice that.
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