1999
  SPRING
AMERICAN FIREARMS AND THE ART OF CONNOISSEURSHIP
by B.L. Witherell
"The connoisseurship of American firearms, like all important fields of collecting, is guided by  principles which help distinguish the ordinary from the extraordinary."

REUNION OF A TRUE PAIR   
by Bill Welch, Esq.
The carved grips on a Colt single action grab the attention of the author, who is able to match the gun that carries them with its twin.

SMITH & WESSON'S NO.2 (ARMY)   
by Lloyd N. Jackson
The author discusses the famed Smith & Wesson No.2 tip-up revolver, and the collecting thereof.

TALES OF GUNS FROM BELOW THE MEXICAN BORDER  
by Paul C. Janke
Excerpts from the May 1988 talk by the author, a founding member of TGCA, to the American Society of Arms Collectors, published in its Bulletin No. 58, and reprinted here by permission.

 

 
  FALL
* A MEXICAN BORDER CAVALRYMAN'S COLT   
by James E. Kattner
A presentation inscribed Model 1896 Colt double action revolver discovered at auction leads the author to a story of action on the border with Mexico.

A DELUXE MONTANA SHARPS RIFLE   
by Bob Butterfield
The cover story describes these lovely Sharps and recounts the author's continuing research into its history.

COY'S COLLECTION    
by Coy Veith
The eleven-year-old son of TGCA member Ed Veith talks about his small collection.

THE GUN THAT CAME OUT OF THE BRUSH   
by W.R. "Bill" Powell
The unexpected discovery and acquisition of a fancy Colt New Service revolver and something of its  original owner.

A UNIQUE PRESENTATION of a Sharps Model 1853 Rifle   
by Tom Seymour
"To a Veteran Mexican War, Civil War and pre-Indian war military officer - Major Lyman Bissell of New Haven Conn. - 1813 to 1888."

THE GUN THAT TALKED   
by Chris Hirsch
Gunsmith and bluegrass banjoist Chris Hirsch discusses the Smith & Wesson No.3 first model and the  unusual tale it told of events in Marianna County, Arkansas in 1874. First published on the Internet and in the May 1998 edition of "GunnySack" the newsletter of the San Jacinto Arms Collectors.

THE MODEL 1874 MILITARY RIFLE on the Kansas Frontier   
by Stan Anderson
Sharps Model 1874 "buffalo guns" for the hunt in the 1870's. "The hunter needed an accurate rifle, capable of bringing down a 1500 pound animal at 200 yards..."

SHARP'S MODEL 1874 FACTORY CASED SPORTING RIFLE  
by Frank Graves
One of about 6,000 Sharp's Buffalo Rifle.

RUSH - One Sheriff's Model   
by Tommy Rholes
An account of how an unusual example of the genre may have come to be.