Here are coupla new additins to the family of spoons I have..
The first is a John Krider Dbl B Black Powder Shotgun circa 1880. B are 30 inchs and show alittle pitting in one B....gun is nicely engraved etc..wood and checkering is in excellent condition.
John Krider was one of the premient gun builders in Philidelphia from the late 1850's through the 1880's. He built the protype of the LeMat revolver of CW fame. His guns are the equivalent of the best English guns of the period. Krider guns are rather hard to come by and are expensive to buy.
I have seen 2 cased Krider percussion rifles with all the accoutrements one went for 20K and the other for 18K, I have seen a cased Percussion Dbl B shotgun go for 19K wt all the goodies and a Percussion DBl B shotgun by itself go for 9K. All were in excellent to almost like new condition. I own a Krider Percussion rifle in excellent to new condition that I paid 6.5K for and one I turned that had the B reblacked and lock cleaned for 4K. So for $175.00 plus shipping its not a bad deal. I will have to find out about restoration on this one..
Second new Spoon is a Stevens mdl 414 "Armory Rifle" on the 44 frame in 22LR. this was manufactured from 1912 to 1932 in which time it set accuracy records when used in competiton. This is a fairly clean example, it is missing the Lyman Peep Sight but has what appears to be a Marble or Lyman Tang sight instead. this one was $400...plus shipping...prices on these are $500 to about $695.00..so it was not a bad deal
