A few items from my display

[littlebird13]

Thank you Thats helps alot

 

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[dcinffxva]

WOW, is that an old Winchester?? Model 73 maybe??

My first thought was a Model 1873 Winchester also. If you can post some more pics of the markings, and the other side, it might help to narrow it down a bit.

 

[lumbercamp]

Here are a couple photos. I really don't know my guns so appreciate your help.

 

[curbdiggercarl57]

Love it, has that "Hellraiser" quality to it!
CurbdiggerCarl

 

[badoscar]

I thought I was in the 99% but after seeing your remarkable collection I can not think
that now. Really cool stuff!

 

[dcinffxva]

Sorry for taking so long on the reply.

It is definitely a Model 1873 rifle. Neither the carbine, or musket had the end cap for the forestock. It would have been in one of three possible calibers, 32-20, 38-40 or 44-40.

The serial number would be on the lower tang, and if you can read it, you could get the records from Winchester on when this rifle was made, and who it was shipped to.

 

[lumbercamp]

I checked for serial numbers but didn't see any. Would have been interesting to whom it was issued to. I'm curious too as why they would have a gun in a lumber camp. In this area food supplies were delivered by wagon.

 

[Blacksheep]

Fantastic collection, thanks for sharing!

 

[BuckleBoy]

This is really an Incredible collection.  When they finally open a Lumber Camp museum somewhere, they'll want to buy your whole collection.  (Maybe you should be the one to open it--with lots of Awesome, 1800s photos of camps blown up on the walls...)   

The idea of having a Camp instead of just quickly clearcutting with heavy machinery is something that folks don't think about anymore...and the fact that you have the remains of this lost industry in your collection--AND that you know what they are, and how they were used...That's incredible. 

Fantastic.

Did you use electrolysis on all of that iron?


-Buckles

 

[lumbercamp]

Buckleboy, there is a museum near near my home town and I have been thinking about notifying them that they can have first pick of these items after my demise. I would hate to see these items leave this area.
Almost all of the items in these photos came from a nine mile radius of my home. Some camps I have hiked 4 miles back in and carried 30 lbs of iron back out.
Some of the iron was cleaned with my friends sand blaster. The last several years I have been doing electrolysis on the iron. When I stared out in the early 70's I used a propane flame thrower to loosen the rust and then wire brush it. This wasn't very effective on getting all the rust off and besides I wore out the flame thrower by using it so often.

 

[BuckleBoy]

That devotion to History is what sets you apart.

The difficulty of recovery, cleaning, and preservation of those pieces has been immense.

Because of the fact that your collection is so huge, the fact that it's unique, and the amount of time involved in recovering and preserving--I think this really belongs on the Banner.


And I will nominate it.



Best Wishes to You,



Buckles

 

[Detectingfreak]

nice job on all of the old relics!

 

[Mike in Berks]

lumbercamp thats an awesome collection you have.....and a very nice display of it
i remember you posting it in Feb. i wasn't a member then and i've looked at it many times since
i can't imagine how many miles you walked......and all the time it took to gather all those pieces
of lumber camp history
when i was about 13 ? early 70's my parents knew a couple that had a hunting camp in
Potter Co. it sat a mile back from the road there was an old road that passed the camp to an
old quarry one day all of us walked back there and below the quarry some lucky person or
person's used their detectors and from what they left behind > IRON < it was an old lumber
camp ? i picked up 3 horseshoes and 1 axe and there was a lot more there and it seems to me
if "you" were the one that searched this place they would'nt have been there for me to find
i'd really like to visit that place again someday ? i'd like some company though because it's
no mans land up there > only problem is it's now "game commision property" <
maybe we can get together sometime and i'll show you that searched camp i'm wondering what
they missed ? ? and maybe it's still laying there after all those years ?
are you familiar with Fin, Fur, and Leather store ? the camp is about 30 miles north on 44
i'm just saying IRON RELICS is what sparked my interest in this great hobby many years ago
i hope you have a never ending supply of camps to search......and thank you for sharing it HH

 

[lumbercamp]

Hi Mike. You are right, i wouldn't have left much behind if I had dug that camp. I'm not familiar with the Fin, Fur, Leather store. I've only dug the extreme bottom of Potter County. Years ago when there was more people digging lumber camps I would come across their piles of iron that they had left behind. In the last nine years I've only come across one freshly dug camp that someone had beat me to. I guess I'm a sucker for torture. The further I have to hike back in and the heavy load carried back out means I've had a successful day of digging. I'd be cautious about carrying out surface finds on State Game Lands. They could still fine you for taking man made items off their property.

 

[Mike in Berks]

Hi Mike. You are right, i wouldn't have left much behind if I had dug that camp. I'm not familiar with the Fin, Fur, Leather store. I've only dug the extreme bottom of Potter County. Years ago when there was more people digging lumber camps I would come across their piles of iron that they had left behind. In the last nine years I've only come across one freshly dug camp that someone had beat me to. I guess I'm a sucker for torture. The further I have to hike back in and the heavy load carried back out means I've had a successful day of digging. I'd be cautious about carrying out surface finds on State Game Lands. They could still fine you for taking man made items off their property.

sounds like you have a detectors paradise lumbercamp
the last two days i found five and dug 4 in the last nine years i've only come across one freshly
dug camp that someone beat me to must be great when you have very little competition
i'll take your advise on carrying things out i thought they might be a little more lenient up that way
like the guy approaches and says are ya finding anything and he turns his back and walks away
i guess the only thing i'll be carrying in and out is my camera
lots of luck out there lumbercamp @ HH

 

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[TheRockCollector]

Nice Collection!

 

[Chris Canada]

WOW Great collection!!

 

[TheRockCollector]

I know awesome collection!