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    FOR SALE Mariner’s Astrolabe

    This is thought to be Champlain's astrolabe?
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    Hello from Ohio

    I saw that (Ohia) once in the winter dark going to work in north central Ohio. It was on an older car that burned oil and had an oil smear up the bumper covering the Ohia on lic. plate onto the trunk lid. Could just make out that it was a MI lic. plate. Laughed all the way to work.
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    WANTED Folding Tin Candle Box

    I tried that many years ago without much success. Was looking for an 18thc example. An OH museum tried and sent me a tin one but based on a ACW example. The original cost continued to rise considerably over the construction. I was disappointed. I have since found a couple of original European...
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    Gun show cannon

    I have no proof, but was once told that the 1812 cannons that went down in Erie have rolled around on the bottom of the Lake to where the trunnions have been rolled off?
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    Woods Walk course

    My 2 cents. Keeping the weeds trimmed is enough work as you age. So steel targets hung on heavy chains helps cut the work.
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    Early 1700's French "Woods Runner's" Long Arms?

    I think these are totals for soldiers, citizens and the Indians combined. Soldiers often brought there fusils from France with them, but a few, very few were recruited from the colonists. and some replacements would be required. The militia were supposed to supply their own arms. But anyone w/o...
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    Early 1700's French "Woods Runner's" Long Arms?

    1683: Regulations required each French merchant ship to carry 12 buccaneer guns to be sold at 15L each to the inhabitants of the various French colonies upon whom they called. (Moller).
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    Early 1700's French "Woods Runner's" Long Arms?

     1702: 600 hunting muskets with barrels 3’-9” for Canada and Acadia and 5 fine hunting guns for Indian Chiefs, to be provided from renewed 1696 contract for additional 5-years with Tulle. (Bouchard, Museum, p 9, 24)  1702: Things needed for establishment of Mobile River. 2 fusils with their...
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    Early 1700's French "Woods Runner's" Long Arms?

    Maybe a better illustration.
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    Flintlock Wall Gun Lock

    Our group can quote it line for line from memory.
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    Flintlock Wall Gun Lock

    A chevalet or three-legged horse that colipases when picked up. "A Treatise of Artillery by Guillaume LeBlond", 1746, reprinted by Museum Restoration Service, 1970, Page 61 "Of the Arquebuse a Croc" and Plate X, Fig. 2. Poor dog.
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    Flintlock Wall Gun Lock

    Yes, tell her that is important. Just recently gave my original blunderbuss wall gun to our son. So we are good here. You can buy insurance in one of the N-E States as protection for attack from French and Indians. But not as must fun as a wall gun! Doc Shaffer Les compagnies du Détroit
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    Best Shot You Ever Had

    My best was a little different. Had an original, not marked, but probably a Wm. Antes as side opening patch-box profile matched a marked wender by him. It had been recently relined (was years ago before good reproductions were available). I had not shot it. Was out carrying it near our farm...
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