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Old 19th June 2014, 08:05 PM   #1
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A friend has just sent these ( awful ) pictures of a swivel gun he found in a building he has bought . Lucky chap !
I don't know about "awful". Those picture gave me a good chuckle.


Why don't I ever find something like that?
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Old 19th June 2014, 08:47 PM   #2
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...Why don't I ever find something like that?
Each one gets what he deserves
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Old 19th June 2014, 09:55 PM   #3
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Oh s--t !!!



P.S. Great gun I wonder where in the house it was found.
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Old 20th June 2014, 01:28 AM   #4
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Oh s--t !!!



P.S. Great gun I wonder where in the house it was found.

Well Norman . apparently it was a Kardomah Coffee House ! I have spent a lot of time in coffee houses and never found anything more exciting than a plastic butter knife !
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Old 20th June 2014, 04:58 AM   #5
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Unbelievable!!!! I could only be so lucky! I've been trying to land a swivel gun over the past decade and here we have a chap that finds one in a deserted building!! I think I'll take up renovating- Very nice naval piece, BTW.
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Old 20th June 2014, 08:26 AM   #6
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Unbelievable!!!! I could only be so lucky! I've been trying to land a swivel gun over the past decade and here we have a chap that finds one in a deserted building!! I think I'll take up renovating- Very nice naval piece, BTW.
Yes and to make it worse he is not interested in weaponry at all , but neither does he seem keen to sell it ... very frustrating !
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Yes and to make it worse he is not interested in weaponry at all , but neither does he seem keen to sell it ... very frustrating !
Make him an offer he can't refuse ... where have i heard this ?
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... Very nice naval piece, BTW.
It had to be naval; can't it be swiveled it on a horse saddle or the like ?
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Old 20th June 2014, 05:51 PM   #9
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It had to be naval; can't it be swiveled it on a horse saddle or the like ?
seek and ye shall find. funny lookin' horse tho.
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Old 20th June 2014, 06:46 PM   #10
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Well Norman . apparently it was a Kardomah Coffee House ! I have spent a lot of time in coffee houses and never found anything more exciting than a plastic butter knife !
Hi,
You'll never guess, I've found another book that definitely identifies this object as an old style mass produced French coffee grinder and believe it or not I've just got a new kitchen and the one thing I'm lacking is, you guessed it, a coffee grinder. Now, after much deliberation and no mean physical effort I've levered open the sporran and there are twenty one shiny new shillings, THAT'S A WHOLE GUINEA!!!, waiting to be spent on or according to the wife squandered on this rusty old French coffee grinder. Ye might think my name is Carnegie offering all that money but a'm just a poor wee Scotsman in dire need of a coffee grinder.
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Give up the fight, lads
I am the only one who owns a decent boat to install this thing

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