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Post by seguin on Sept 19, 2007 23:06:24 GMT -5
Ok, that´s great Nef! Nice pic. I´m sure I can´t miss that ugly Mexican face...
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Post by neferetus on Sept 21, 2007 13:55:16 GMT -5
Seguin, I've just mailed the two VHS tapes. Check your PM's for details.
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Post by neferetus on Sept 21, 2007 14:34:20 GMT -5
That's wild. I just received an email frome abesbooks stating that the FRIENDS OF THE LUBBOCK LIBRARY will be mailing my purchase of ALAMO: WHERE THE LAST MAN DIED. (The book is a library castoff.)
This leads me to believe that sellers can send listings to abesbooks and the company will list them, for a price, sort of like eBay.
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Post by seguin on Sept 21, 2007 16:34:11 GMT -5
This leads me to believe that sellers can send listings to abesbooks and the company will list them, for a price, sort of like eBay. That´s right! Abebooks is a place where book stores can list books they have for sale, especially rare books but also new ones. I´m not sure if it applies to private individuals too. Thank God, you don´t have to bid on the items within a fixed time limit, like you do on ebay...
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Post by neferetus on Oct 16, 2007 16:41:48 GMT -5
I still have a VHS tape for sale of Walt Disney's feature film, DAVY CROCKETT, KING OF THE WILD FRONTIER. The theatrically released film compiled the television episodes DAVY CROCKETT, INDIAN FIGHTER, DAVY CROCKETT IN CONGRESS and DAVY CROCKETT AT THE ALAMO. With a running time of 93 minutes, the feature film resorts to a lot of careful editing. The Alamo battle, for instance, has been reduced from three assaults, to two.
Anyway, for $3.00, plus cost of postage, you can't go wrong. GO AHEAD!
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Post by Bromhead24 on Oct 16, 2007 16:43:26 GMT -5
Thats a good price Nef...
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Post by neferetus on Nov 16, 2007 12:05:32 GMT -5
Not much activity here in the Alamo tradin' post.
If you do not have anything for sale, perhaps you could make a wish list of Alamo items that you either want, or need. They pop up in the darndest of places.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Nov 16, 2007 12:17:53 GMT -5
A Brown Bess with bayonet....
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Post by neferetus on Nov 16, 2007 12:28:28 GMT -5
A Brown Bess with bayonet.... Er, I've got a broken bayonet that's been reground, but it's not for sale. Try scaling down your wish list to, say a nice book, or DVD.
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Post by Greg C. on Nov 16, 2007 15:26:01 GMT -5
Crockett's vest...
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Post by neferetus on Nov 16, 2007 19:57:23 GMT -5
I understand that repros are a tad pricey.
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Post by henrywarnell on Nov 17, 2007 8:45:43 GMT -5
Wish I still had my India Pattern Brown Bess and it's Bayonet, we fell on hard times a few year back and I let it go for £400.00.
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Post by neferetus on Nov 17, 2007 12:31:56 GMT -5
Wish I still had my India Pattern Brown Bess and it's Bayonet, we fell on hard times a few year back and I let it go for £400.00. What a pity. With the current gun laws, how hard would it be to even own one, now? Would it have to be non-firing, or some other such nonsense, or do I exaggerate the situation in the UK?
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Post by Greg C. on Nov 17, 2007 19:17:59 GMT -5
Wish I still had my India Pattern Brown Bess and it's Bayonet, we fell on hard times a few year back and I let it go for £400.00. What a pity. With the current gun laws, how hard would it be to even own one, now? Would it have to be non-firing, or some other such nonsense, or do I exaggerate the situation in the UK? I personally feel if we have less gun control, we will have less crime. Sounds weird but give it a thought...
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Post by henrywarnell on Nov 18, 2007 5:45:09 GMT -5
The gun laws in the U.K. are ridiculous, we can't own a full bore hand gun unless it is black powder, then you must have a permit and belong to a gun club, or if it is an antique and the ammunition is obsolete you can own it without a permit even though it could be in good enough condition to fire, getting ammunition made for it would be no problem as there are places in Europe that will make it. As for the Brown Bess there are no restrictions and it used to be firmly fixed to the wall in the bar of our Pub along with a few other antique guns, one of them being a single barrel percussion gun made by Joseph Manton, at that time I also had a second series Walker Colt on permit, had it been an antique first series no permit needed at the time. If I can find it, I have a photo of the Brown Bess on the wall in our Pub that I can post.
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Post by Greg C. on Nov 18, 2007 10:28:36 GMT -5
The gun laws in the U.K. are ridiculous, we can't own a full bore hand gun unless it is black powder, then you must have a permit and belong to a gun club, or if it is an antique and the ammunition is obsolete you can own it without a permit even though it could be in good enough condition to fire, getting ammunition made for it would be no problem as there are places in Europe that will make it. As for the Brown Bess there are no restrictions and it used to be firmly fixed to the wall in the bar of our Pub along with a few other antique guns, one of them being a single barrel percussion gun made by Joseph Manton, at that time I also had a second series Walker Colt on permit, had it been an antique first series no permit needed at the time. If I can find it, I have a photo of the Brown Bess on the wall in our Pub that I can post. I would love to see pics of the rifle! You own a pub?
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Post by henrywarnell on Nov 18, 2007 10:50:55 GMT -5
Hi Greg, I will find the photo's and post them, we don't own our Pub anymore, my wife and I are retired now. Our Pub was an old Coaching Inn with old Oak beams and stone floors, it was built in the late 1600s, which I think makes it older than the Alamo!
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Post by Greg C. on Nov 18, 2007 11:05:31 GMT -5
Hi Greg, I will find the photo's and post them, we don't own our Pub anymore, my wife and I are retired now. Our Pub was an old Coaching Inn with old Oak beams and stone floors, it was built in the late 1600s, which I think makes it older than the Alamo! What's the name of the pub? My parents may have been there when they went to the Uk back in the 80's...
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Post by henrywarnell on Nov 18, 2007 11:14:29 GMT -5
The Pub was called "The Crown Inn" and it's in a small village in North Somerset called East Huntspill, about 15 mile from Glastonbury, home of the famous Pop Festival and the said resting place of King Arthur.
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Post by Bromhead24 on Nov 18, 2007 12:23:10 GMT -5
The Pub was called "The Crown Inn" and it's in a small village in North Somerset called East Huntspill, about 15 mile from Glastonbury, home of the famous Pop Festival and the said resting place of King Arthur. Is it the norm in the UK to serve beer at room tempature or is it ice cold like here in the US? Thanks BTW, i had a 1st pattern Brown Bess with a 46" barrel and Grice on the lock. I sold it to get a stand of Bagpipes...big mistake..
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