Frazier's Patent 50-70 cartridge box

[Fred]

Hey, I'm glad you guy's like stuff like that! There's nobody around here, including my wife, is interested in this neat stuff. LOL
I remember when Dixie Gun Works used to have all types of cartridge boxes and belts from $7.50 to $12.00 for the really rare ones.

[Fred]

Wow. there's so much good information that comes from this and Al Fraska's site. These discussions among you guys (yall) are extremely interesting. If we were all neighbors in the same town, I'd put up a shack with an old wood burning stove in the middle of the room with a bar off to one side with a whole lotta old wooden Captains chairs sitting around it in a circle. Summer Sausage, sandwich fixens, beer, fruit juices and water, and a gun rack off to one side with maybe a neat ol Trapdoor, Sharps, Remington, Colt or whatever hanging up in it. Of course the bar would also be where anyone could take a gun apart or just look at it.
The stuff we could talk about!

Wow, I think I just described Miss Kitty's place in Gunsmoke. What was the name?
The LONG BRANCH saloon! LOL

[Dick Hosmer]

I'd enjoy nothing more! I STILL plan to visit you if my wife's health improves (and she does seem to slowly be getting better) while our grandson is in med school in Lincoln.

[Fred]

I hope your wife's health continues to improve Dick. Whether you both can visit or not this year, I do hope that her health improves.
If you Are able to visit your grandson in Lincoln, youll find my three 1868's interesting to examine.

[butlersrangers]

Fred - Build it and we will come!!!

[Fred]

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[Fred]

Three of the first 150 1868's, which of course all have 1868 dated breechblocks.
Serial numbers 6, 86 and 127.


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[Fred]

They've all got bores like this.
This is on rifle number 6.

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[Dick Hosmer]

I'll look forward to seeing them! Of course, I've seen/handled 86 before, when it was in the collection of the late Graham Burnside, whom old-timers will remember as a very prolific author in the firearms field during the 1950s-1980s. He would be pleased that the rifle, which was one of his favorites, is in such good hands.

[Fred]

Thanks Dick. Yes, I believe I remember that rifle number 86 might've been the first 1868 with an 1868 breechblock that you saw while first visiting with Graham Burnside. As a Young man too wasn't it?