Post by Yan Taylor on Jul 15, 2013 5:01:58 GMT -6
Hello everyone, I found this on an old site yesterday;
Lot 1. This model 1876 Gatling Gun is considered a Classic among collectors. - Only 18 of this particular model were ever made and only 7 exist today. It is the most desirable of all Gatling guns both for its visual appeal and the fact that it is considered "The Indian War Custer Gun." The M.1876 was the model that General Custer had for the 7th Cavalry in Dakota Territory but decided not to take on that fateful day at Little Big Horn.
This serial number #179 Model 1876 Gatling gun was sold by the U.S. Government to Bannerman after the turn of the century, who kept it as a display and never offered it for sale until his company closed in the 1950's. We believe that Don Toppel purchased it from Bannerman (he authored the book "The Gatling Gun" in 1971.) A private collector in New Jersey bought it in the 1970"s, owned it for approximately 10 years and sold it to another collector in New York in 1988. I purchased the gun directly from him in October 1999. It is without doubt, the finest Model 1876 Gatling gun in existence and the "only one" in private hands.
Catalogue: 122 - "(Cat 122) The Wild West" Price. . . . . $ 195,000.00
Custer left either two, three or four Gatling Guns back at FAL, there was one site that said that these could have been broken down and carried with special designed harnesses for pack mule or horse, thus making them more mobile, but assembling these Guns would have been time consuming, but I don’t think that these Guns would have been of any practical use to the three main Battalions, imagine either Custer or Reno moving rapidly with one of these in tow, and Benteen on his scout also carrying one, so the only place that these Guns would have been kept was with the pack train, and the only place where they could have been employed was on Reno Hill.
Ian.
Lot 1. This model 1876 Gatling Gun is considered a Classic among collectors. - Only 18 of this particular model were ever made and only 7 exist today. It is the most desirable of all Gatling guns both for its visual appeal and the fact that it is considered "The Indian War Custer Gun." The M.1876 was the model that General Custer had for the 7th Cavalry in Dakota Territory but decided not to take on that fateful day at Little Big Horn.
This serial number #179 Model 1876 Gatling gun was sold by the U.S. Government to Bannerman after the turn of the century, who kept it as a display and never offered it for sale until his company closed in the 1950's. We believe that Don Toppel purchased it from Bannerman (he authored the book "The Gatling Gun" in 1971.) A private collector in New Jersey bought it in the 1970"s, owned it for approximately 10 years and sold it to another collector in New York in 1988. I purchased the gun directly from him in October 1999. It is without doubt, the finest Model 1876 Gatling gun in existence and the "only one" in private hands.
Catalogue: 122 - "(Cat 122) The Wild West" Price. . . . . $ 195,000.00
Custer left either two, three or four Gatling Guns back at FAL, there was one site that said that these could have been broken down and carried with special designed harnesses for pack mule or horse, thus making them more mobile, but assembling these Guns would have been time consuming, but I don’t think that these Guns would have been of any practical use to the three main Battalions, imagine either Custer or Reno moving rapidly with one of these in tow, and Benteen on his scout also carrying one, so the only place that these Guns would have been kept was with the pack train, and the only place where they could have been employed was on Reno Hill.
Ian.