Cajun Pawn Stars M4 (Ridiculous?)

Brutus wrote:

PhillipM wrote:

TankerHC wrote:@Phil Good post. That was an interesting thread. Reminded me of that 1861 Springfield an old lady brought in to Antiques Roadshow. It was original and she had paperwork showing where it was issued to her great grandfathers unit and I think a picture of him with it and they researched it and were able to verify it. I believe they said it came from the Harpers Ferry armory. Had been through many battles. Valued at $100,000

I also remember that Colt SAA they got and the issue with the loading gate. The guy in the thread said the expert was wrong. The expert had said the loading gate on the SAA had the wrong seriel number so it was replaced and lowered the value of the gun. Guy in the thread said the number on the loading gate isnt a serial number, its a manufacturing number and shouldnt match the serial number. So much for the expert.

I watched another Cajun Pawn Stars last night where a guy brought in a Civil War lap desk and two journals. The expert appraised the two journals at around $12,000. I have seen Rick on Pawn Stars buy 3 or 4 of them and never paid over $100. He always tells the sellers that they are a dime a dozen, back in those days everyone kept a journal. To be fair, the one on Cajun was written by someone in Alexandria who witnessed Shermans men burn the city. The expert pointed out that very few relics survived the fire.

After I watched it I thought about it critically and realized the journal said they burned a town, and Alexandria was burned, but I missed where the journal said the town burned was Alexandria.

And...

I'm fairly certain Sherman was never in Alexandia, LA - if that's the Alex. they were talking about.

PhillipM wrote: If only Davis had realized the war fighter he had in Forrest and had given him more resources, Forrest would have handed Sherman his ass and we would have a lot more antebellum buildings and homes left.