Just published. 9th Edition. Softcover. 800 pages.
Leading reference for antique American firearms, with a multi-generational following. Combines thorough historical arms details and authoritative pricing in one easy-to-use book. The book simply known as Flayderman's is your go-to guide for accurate and updated collector pricing, and identifying and historic details of antique firearms. With meticulously researched data, descriptions of stampings and markings for 4,000+ antique American firearms manufactured between the colonial era and 1900, and more than 1,900 sharp photos - including a new 16-page color photo gallery, Flayderman's is truly the ultimate value guide to antique American firearms.
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(248) $39.99
Earl J. Coates & John D. McAulay. Softcover, 120 pp. 1996, Thomas Publications.
Increase the value of your Sharps rifle or carbine by identifying the soldier who carried it. If your Sharps has a serial number, this book will likely tell you what soldier used it in the Civil War. It traces the history and development of Sharps rifles and carbines and contains short histories of a number of regiments that carried them.
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Dean S. Thomas. Hardcover, 344 pp. 1997, Thomas Publications.
Volume one of the multi-volume encyclopedia of Civil War bullets, cartridges, and balls. Detailed information on designers, manufacturers, arsenals, and more.
(500887) $40.00
Dean S. Thomas. Hardcover, 528 pp. 2002, Thomas Publications.
This volume literally continues where Part One ended, and examines the ammunition for "Federal Breechloading Carbines & Rifles." The seven chapters with eighteen appendices detail the story of the twenty-seven or so different kinds of breechloaders actually purchased or ordered by the Ordnance Department during the Civil War. The book is conveniently divided by the type of priming -- internal or external -- and then alphabetically by maker or supplier. A wealth of new information and research has proven that these weapons either functioned properly or were inadequate relative to the design and ingenuity of the proprietary cartridges. In the end it can be safely stated that: You do not know your Civil War gun until you know and understand its ammunition.
(500886) $49.95