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Bruce_in_WV
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Looking for Remnants of Collection
Sep 3rd, 2008 at 10:35am
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I would like to locate any of the single shot rifles that were in my Dad's collection. He broke up the collection and sold off the guns piecemeal when he and my Mom were moving into a retirement village while I was overseas, and I didn't have a chance to get one of them for 'old times sake'. It was at least 10 years ago and it's a crap shoot that any of you might remember the sale or the provenance of any of his guns, but I want to give it a try.
His name was Sidney Low, and he sold the guns from Kilmarnock, VA. There were a variety of high end makes and models, probably 25-30 guns, all the cream of the crop of his 50+ years of collecting, mostly Schuetzens, but a few in the sporting rifle style, too.
I would appreciate hearing from anyone with one (or more) of these guns.
Thank you.
Bruce Low  (hbrucelow at aol dot com).
  
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Tar_Baby
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Re: Looking for Remnants of Collection
Reply #1 - Sep 3rd, 2008 at 5:54pm
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do you have a list of guns or of his friends at that time.small world around here. if i can help,i will.   ben shelor   804  769  1103.
  
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Bruce_in_WV
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Reply #2 - Sep 3rd, 2008 at 6:12pm
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No sir, I don't have detailed information. He and Mom have been gone for several years and all those records are long gone, too. 
I do know that he had many guns from upstate NY - where he grew up - including a number of guns he could document coming from Pope's shop. I know there Ballards, Bullards, Stevens, Winchesters, and Remingtons, many with bullet moulds, false muzzles and starters, hooked buttplates and palm rests, in the rack at the time he broke up the collection, but don't have additional details.
That's the best I can come up with. I hope that stirs a few memories...
  
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Reply #3 - Sep 3rd, 2008 at 6:20pm
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quinlan   215 766 3403  gary knowa much about what is going on with sales,he trades info for pineapple upside down cake. regards ,ben--------inside joke
  
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Bruce_in_WV
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Reply #4 - Sep 3rd, 2008 at 8:17pm
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Thank you for the online and offline help. I'll be following up with folks who know where some of these gun went.
  
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Bruce_in_WV
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Reply #5 - Sep 18th, 2008 at 4:57pm
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I literally just found - 5 minutes ago - an old inventory from the last move that my parents made to a single family home in VA when they relocated after his retirement, but before they moved into the village. It has a listing of major parts of his collections - some of the longrifles, the single shots and the accessories. Its an amazing trip down memory lane.
BTW, if there are any collectors with an interest in Utca NY gun makers, there was an old (undated) newspaper article listing them that I can scan and share.
  
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Re: Looking for Remnants of Collection
Reply #6 - Aug 15th, 2009 at 1:09am
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Sydney Lowe ran an ad in Muzzle Blasts magazine. It is the mag. of The National Muzzle loading Rifle Assn. I bought several of his muzzle loaders and another fellow maxed our every card he owned to buy many of the cartridge rifles. Another fellow bought some of the cartridge guns from th impoverished first buyer. I sold the muzzleloaders for years. Some went to Texas. That buyer ain't sellin'. R. B.
  
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