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Fantastic collection! Always love to see Indian wars items

Back in the 1960s, Surplus City, a store that was south of Lawton, OK, sold those cutters for about $7.00 and purchased two of the tools. I still have them today and they have been used for more than cutting wire. Small screws and some nails can be cut with them as well.

One thing that people tend to forget is that the USAAF and USAF were present in England from pretty much 1942 until... today! Many of the same bases in the UK were/are used from the cold war up to now. SO, it isn't too far of a stretch to assume that the same English companies supplying the B-24/B-17 bomber crews with insignia in 1944 were also supplying the guys flying B-52H Stratofortress bombers out of Royal Air Force (RAF) Fairford Airbase today. If you look at the back of this wing, it has a sort of "crimped" effect around the feathers and bottom part, with some "cliché" patterns behind the shield. You can compare it to a WWII vintage Gaunt wing (which has a slightly different pattern. I have seen these later USAF wings with American or British-style findings. Once or twice, I have even seen them in clutch back.

Yes, I think that there would be a market for a high quality reproduction of the early M1905 scales. The earliest ones are now well over 100 years old and very scarce on the loose. The key is "high quality" as collectors are very fussy about details (I include myself). Thus, a so-so repro would not meet with the demand or collector approval. Example: the Sarco scales which most of us agree are awful. See the image below for the Sarco scales taken from their website. The materials (walnut properly stained and shaped with routing "ribs/ridges" intact) and the screw and escutcheons would need to all be first class. Additionally, in order to meet the objections of some shouting "fakery" and that these reproductions in the future would be confused with originals it would be important to mark them permanently as reproductions. I suggest doing so on the underside of the scales with the maker's initials and year date. The amount of time, materials and work involved in creating a high quality reproduction might make this project economically unfeasible. However I think the demand is there and if the reproductions could be produced and priced attractively (maybe $75 or so) then I think they would sell themselves. Again, from a collector's standpoint the keys would be creating a high quality reproduction, properly marked as a repro and at an attractive price point. The images below of an original M1905 Springfield Armory 1906 dated bayonet in my collection illustrate what the aspiration should be, in my opinion. Good luck, and keep us informed if this project ever takes flight. Regards, Charlie

It’s not a very common thing to find.

WH in a circle: Whitehead and Hoag

hellop Robert, quite a great display, my compliments! A really good-looking character, guessing around 1889 - 1892? The rearsight on the Trapdoor carbine is the older type but I've seen photos of this very carbine still in use here and there as late as 1891 (!!). Is the blouse the Pattern 1890? I've got one and still keep it aside for my old project of assembling a Cavalry Sergeant, about 1890 - 91, always met difficulties in later times but still hoping to accomplish it. Please are the gloves the buckskin Pattern 1895?, they so look judging from the newer decorative stitching on wristlets if compared to the design on 1884 / 1886 gloves. Very good results, the guy is a lovely one. I've got all the needed items for a full-size character too, last finding was the riding boots (the 1876 pattern, virtually impossible getting the 1885) but better than nothing. Still wishing to find a suitable mannequinn good enough to fit in those uncomfortable sizes of blouse/trousers/boots. To next one. Franco.

You need to mount that on a nice wood plaque. Then on a metal plaque state who got it, how and the date!!

Does RobL still produce hawleys anyways, because that was about a decade ago. Nit sure, but asking him about the process if he’s still around would help a lot.

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Here's a real beaut I saw on FB. Hilarious!

Bravo to you. Not a USN ship but a US flagged ship and the final “battle” of the Vietnam War. Was personally removed by a relative that was on the boarding party; USMC.

Thanks for the link, I could never find any of the old threads people have talked about. I’ll have to look through that one. There’s bound to be good info. Over the years it seems there’s been many different methods. So revisiting some older ones to get some basic tips wouldn’t hurt.

Ok, I know nothing about this but you folks seem to really appreciate it. Which gets my interest. Would you mind filling me in? Thanks. mikie