Dick Hosmer wrote on Jul 27^th, 2012 at 5:44am:

Not going to happen, or at least so I was told - he plans to panel one wall of the finished gun room in manuals, checkerboard-style, under some sort of clear plastic protection.

Not "gun room."  Yes, those are wall paper panels.  With the other manuals (other years of those sets and other sets) it'll be quite pretty.  It'll also be publicly viewable.

No, I don't sell.  Not a dealer.


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As much as I admire and respect him, and laud his prodigious research efforts, we are diametrically opposed on that issue, which I tend to see as unrestrained greed, though he now seems to be drawing a line (even publicizing same) at what he will pay, which I do not believe was always the case.

Wow, you seem to know my motivations more than I do!  Which, if you think about it, can't really be the case....

Question for you Dick.  How many trapdoors do you have?  More than 1?  Quite greedy then?  Queue a discussion about how they're all different.  How many printings of the 1882 trapdoor manual?  "Three."  I suspect I'm the first one to know that in quite some time.  How many printings of the Krag?  Yes, I do know.  How do I know?

So it started out as identifying some information specific to the manuals.  Information which you're not aware of.  After I completed that exercise the tile idea hit me so I'll go with it.  Is the musket organ at SA unbridled greed?


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There are a number of collectors who are doing without, so that he can have (what I feel to be) more than one person needs.

You don't get to determine need.


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He will tell you - and fairly so - that it is his money, and they just need to look harder. Joe does not suffer laziness, or lack of initiative! I cannot argue with that - I just wouldn't follow the same path.

"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs" didn't work well in spite of Karl's assertion.