Once more, into the swamp....

[5MadFarmers]

The Hebditch collection was sold in November of 2005, not 2006. Found a catalog set. I'll see if the cadet is in there.

[madsenshooter]

Or if anyone knows how to contact Mike, they could ask him to email some copies. I looked in my ebay msgs, since I'd contacted him, already gone.

[Dick Hosmer]

Mike's email sent to Joe - do you want it, too, Bob?

[madsenshooter]

No, that's fine Dick, I'll catch him on ebay again sometime.

[5MadFarmers]

That guns wasn't sold at that auction.

The Krags in the listed collection were a sundry collection of items - most not original. I hate to sound negative but the Krags in that auction were items a collector without knowledge would buy. Guns posing as thing they aren't. Makes me wonder about the cadet.

[madsenshooter]

Hard to say, Mike had been collecting for awhile before getting his fingers on it, he ought to know. He was handling it very daintily, like it was a one of kind item.

[Dick Hosmer]

That guns wasn't sold at that auction.

The Krags in the listed collection were a sundry collection of items - most not original. I hate to sound negative but the Krags in that auction were items a collector without knowledge would buy. Guns posing as thing they aren't. Makes me wonder about the cadet.

Sadly, Greg Martin is no stranger to such stuff.

[Kragrifle]

Mary Hebditch. I only heard Bill say Mary, so now I guess I know the last name. If I have the story straight, I thought I heard that the cadet ended up back at West Point along with the rifle that Frank Mallory took back there. I know the SN range on Mallory's rifle. Wonder what her SN was?

[madsenshooter]

It seems to me that when discussing it with Mike, it too was over 30,000, that's why I assumed it to be one of the museum specimens. Hmm, I'm going digging in my yahoo mail. Ah, finding things. Mike said that Mary's Cadet is the one photographed for Brophy's book, and he thinks that it may have gone back to West Point too. I can't find the pics he sent me though.

[madsenshooter]

Found em

Found the pics Mike had sent me. Thanks yahoo, for keeping such oddities! I think, but am not sure, that I also have a pic of the receiver, it's an 1895 receiver and the serial # appears to be 30042. That may have been a different rifle I was eyeing and not from Mike.

[Kragrifle]

Thick wrist stock would be correct for one of the four museum pieces. A well known collector had the third one of these and sold it 3-4 years ago. I had that one in my hands and the check book out, then got cold feet. Sins of omission are much worse than sins of commission. Wish I would have kept the SN.

[madsenshooter]

The 30042 was an 1896 carbine, pic I'd sent to Joe for his serial # compilation.