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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1958)
1A MAIL TRIBUNE, Mwtford, Oreson. Sunday, August 3, 1938 Med Treasure ' 4 by (faM Any Revolving Cylinder Gun Brings Top Price Colonel Coif i famed con tribution to the history of fire arms the revolver that bears his name was pre ceded by an undetermined number of other revolving cylinder weapons that work ed, but not so well. These included handguns, rifles, shotguns and even at least one small cannon. One of these early weapons Is a flintlock, four-shot, re volving cylinder shotgun. It is a British gun of about 12 gauge made in London in the latter1 part of the 18th Cen tury. Originally it had a barrel probably three feet long, but somewhere along the way the barrel had been cut down to only 18 inches, possibly for use by a stagecoach guard or more likely as a spring gun. An eye, screwed into the un der side of the butt halfway between the butt plate and the trigger guard, could have ho other t purpose than . to guide a cord attached to the trigger so that either the open ing of a door or some other pull on the string would fire the piece. The engraving on the lock plate was of a quality to sug gest that the piece came from one of the better gunmakers of the day. The maker's name was not on it, but quite pos sibly it was made by Elisha Collier, an American gun smith who worked in London for several years and turned out various revolving cylin der weapons with a flintlock action. Collier's pieces in good con dition are among the most valuable of antique firearms, bring prices as high as $3,000 or more. But anyone who owns any kind of revolving cylinder, flintlock weapon need not feel badly about it. Even if the condition is not particularly good, it is still an item rare enough to com mand a price in the hundreds of dollars. STAMPS WITH SURCHARGE HAVE ADDED VALUES De Gaulle's recent return to power as head of the French Government touched off a controversy between two friends, one of whom served in the French Navy during World War II. The Frenchman, who had been stationed at the naval base of Toulon in early 1945, got out some letters he had written to his wife in New York. He proved his point, but in doing so he noticed that the stamps on the envelopes were surcharged with an R. F. Sometimes stamps with a sur charge have an extra value. According to Scott's Cata logue, such stamps do have a worth-while premium. - The "R. F." stands for Re publique Francaise. It was overprinted in black on the six-cent, carmine colored reg ular U. S. airmail stamp, for use by personnel of the French Navy on airmail they wished to send to the United States. French airmail was far more expensive, and it was considered as a friend ges ture to our allies to let them use our airmail facilities at the same rate as our own peo ple. The purpose of the over print was to prevent use by unauthorized persons. The letters i had to bear the return address, identification data of the sender and be mailed from one of the French naval bases. The type in which the "R. F." is printed differs for the different bases, that for Toulon being in a script. As for value, the surcharg ed stamp alone is listed at $6, used or not. But since these were on the envelopes,' the owner had no difficulty in getting $10 each for them. OLD MECHANICAL BANKS ARE IN GREAT DEMAND If you have an old mechani cal bank at home, you'd bet ter take a look at it. If it is 40 or 50 years old, and from the 1880s or along In there, go to your nearest library and look it up. In case they don't have a book that will tell you about such things, they can arrange to get one. Many of these mechanical banks have a value of $20 to $50. come are worth $100 or more, and a very few are worth far more than that. , A friend read a description and seen a picture of an old mechanical, bank known as the "Bow-ery Bank." There were two windows in either side of the face of the bank. A dog sat in each one. In front of the window on the right was a coin slot. When a coin was inserted, both dogs turn ed toward each other then re sumed their places. "According to the story," my friend said, "this is the only bank known of this kind, and its mechanism is made of wood." I asked if he thought he had one. "I know I had one as a kid," he replied, "but it was made of metal." He CGuld even remember that the words "Bow-ery Bank" on the front were painted in red letters and that the rest of the piece was painted in green and yellow. He could also remember, or thought he could, that he had seen it in the attic some 15 years earlier. He didn't find it and he hasn't found it, it will prob ably prove among the rarer of these items that have a close association with childhood. (Released by McClure News paper Syndicate) OTonnellCampaign Chairman Selected Philip B. Lowry, Medford attorney and ; state senator, has been named Jackson county campaign' chairman for Kenneth J. O'Connell, Eu gene, in his election campaign for the state supreme court, Lowry said Saturday. O'Connell was appointed to the court recently, but must seek election in the general election this fall. Senator Lowry said a nom inating convention for O'Con nell will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 7, in the Lin coln High school auditorium in Portland. He said more than the necessary 250 voters are expected, and invited any local people interested in O'Connell's candidacy to at tend. Other members of the local O'Connell for Supreme Court will be announced soon, he said. Socialist Love Tales Wanted in E. Germany Berlin (UPD East Ger man Communist leader Walt er Ulbricht has ordered So viet Zone authors to write so cialist love stories to keep the youth from reading Western "trash," it was disclosed Fri day. In a speech to Communist youth leaders, Ulbricht com plained East German boys and girls are reading too many Western novels. Con ceding that "girls want love stories," he urged Communist authors to deal with the mat ter and not leave it to the "trash manufacturers." There is a copper mining museum in the picturesque mountain village of Roros, Norway. ,. DO NT MISS Weisfield's Gigantic Warehouse SALE Ends Monday, 9 P.M. DRY - Direct from mill to you BIG DOUBLE LOADS or SINGLE SUMMER PRICES MEDFORD FUEL CO. SP 2-2111 Court and McAndrews xK.;v.'.vtaveMHf-v PENNEY'S LICKS INFLATION! NO PRICES HIGHER THAN A YEAR AGO MANY ARE LOWER " WHERE PRICES ARE THE SAME - QUALITY HAS BEEN IMPROVEDl COMPARE - SAVE! SHOP TILL 9 MONDAY NIGHT! 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