A new Pre-29, once owned by W. A. Orick

[Modified]

The dude was hard core military. I have no doubt this is him.

20+ yrs genealogy research. If anyone has a name from a firearm they want researched I'll give it a go. email swede1894(at)gmail.com (research gratis for gun people)

House of Karlina
Swedish Mausers & rolling blocks

This is way too cool. Thank you so much for finding this, I'm clearly going to have to get better at actually doing such research if I keep buying such guns.

 

[Lee's Landing Billy]

That's IT!!! I'm having one of these by the end of the year one way or the other! You are a lucky man.

Thanks to 2 members of this forum, I got one too!!!

 

[Modified]

Digging up a bit of an old thread here with an...update? I grabbed a copy of an old magazine from the war. This W.A. Orick guy was pretty cool as it turns out, featured as he was in this article:

If you would like to read it, not by blowing up the pictures I took of the magazine, you can find it in text here: A War to be Won

The site which led me to this particular article.

It's a heck of a lot of fun to start to put together the ephemera that belongs with a gun, with that gun. I should probably poke around and see if I can't get a picture of Orick himself.

 

[mh51]

Great gun, great price, and some great research into the possible original owner!!!

 

[Pondoro]

This is great! I bought a nice leather attache case in a second hand store and managed to learn a bit about the previous owner (deceased by then). Your gun and the research behind the owner, is 1,000 times more cool!

 

[NavySCPO]

$1045 for a Beautiful Pre-29 with Cokes...You should be ashamed of yourself!

To ease your pain and guilt, I'll give you you're money back, I might even be persuaded to pay shipping...

 

[Modified]

$1045 for a Beautiful Pre-29 with Cokes...You should be ashamed of yourself!

To ease your pain and guilt, I'll give you you're money back, I might even be persuaded to pay shipping...

Haha, keep in mind this was 5 years ago now

 

[Bob L]

What a fantastic find and story. Congratulations!

 

[sturtyboy]

Wowie Zowie! It's like you can't make this kinda o stuff up and be any better.

 

[boykinlp]

My photography skills do not do this gun justice. I was expecting both a model 29 (not pre) and a gun in far rougher shape for the $1,045 asking price. The pictures of it were terrible, and it was labeled a Nickel 28-2, but I figured the stocks looked nice and I wouldn't be a war criminal from separating some nice cokes from a 28-2.

Looks like you got a fantastic gun for an awesome price to me. I can understand the dealer not knowing a pre-model 29 from a model 29 or 28-2, but where did Nickel come from? The pictures might look like Nickel, but didn't the dealer look at it in person?
Larry

 

[Modified]

Looks like you got a fantastic gun for an awesome price to me. I can understand the dealer not knowing a pre-model 29 from a model 29 or 28-2, but where did Nickel come from? The pictures might look like Nickel, but didn't the dealer look at it in person?
Larry

The dealer had taken pictures of a few guns, and posted the auction for a nickel 28-2, but accidentally used the pictures for this pre-model 29.

When I saw the auction I immediately recognized what it was, called the dealer, and arranged for a direct sale of this gun before he put it on gunbroker, and then he fixed the photos on the auction to the correct ones of the 28-2.