The Joy of Prop Collecting: A Closer Look at Uberti's Flintlock Pistols

As a prop collector, I have experienced my fair share of mild to great disappointment when it comes to acquiring new pieces for my collection. But rarely do I find something that exceeds my expectations in every way. That was the case with my latest acquisition - two beautiful Uberti flintlock pistols. From the moment they arrived, I knew I had stumbled upon something special.

The level of craftsmanship on these pistols is truly stunning. I don't own many firearms, but this one stands out as a masterpiece. The attention to detail, the precision, and the overall build quality are all top-notch. As someone who appreciates the art of prop collecting, I can appreciate the effort that goes into creating something like this.

One of the things that impresses me about Uberti is their commitment to historical accuracy. They're known for producing firearms that are highly accurate, stable, and repeatable - characteristics that were essential for dueling pistols during the 18th century. But what really sets them apart is their focus on precision over decoration. Instead of adding unnecessary embellishments, they spend their resources on crafting a firearm that functions flawlessly.

My Uberti flintlock pistols are 54 caliber, which was the standard size for dueling pistols during that era. They're also equipped with borescopes, which allowed me to inspect the barrels for any signs of corrosion or wear. I'm pleased to report that both pistols have very little to no corrosion, and they're ready to fire.

As a prop collector, it's essential to consider how you'll display your pieces. In this case, I plan on creating a new box for my Uberti flintlock pistols using some leftover wood and a few hours of my time. I want the box to reflect the era in which these pistols were originally used, complete with intricate carvings and detailed designs.

To complete the display, I'll need to source some additional pieces, such as a powder flask, wooden ramrod, and maybe even a hammer or punch for cleaning out the barrel. These items will help to recreate the authentic experience of using these pistols during the 18th century.

As someone who's passionate about early American history, I appreciate the opportunity to own and display these pieces. They're not only beautiful but also serve as a reminder of the significance of firearms in our nation's past. When I do finally fire them, I plan on documenting the experience and sharing it with my audience.

For those interested in prop collecting or historical reenactment, I highly recommend considering Uberti's flintlock pistols. They're an excellent choice for anyone looking to add a touch of authenticity to their collection or performances. And who knows? You might just find yourself falling in love with the art of prop collecting like I have.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: envery exciting time hey everybody Adam Savage here uh I am back in San Francisco after some time in the beautiful city of Trieste in Italy but I'm back it's a lovely that's a lovely it is a cold and rainy Friday morning in San Francisco um and I have received something that I have been wanting for a long long long long time um I am a history buff among other things I also am weirdly upset weirdly obsessed with all sorts of different Weaponry from ye oldies swords to science fiction weapons um and also I love the musical Hamilton uh my wife and I went and saw the original cast on Broadway when the show first opened um it remains a singular theatrical experience for me and in researching my obsession I found out that in 1981 the American historical society teamed up with a replica firearm maker Uberti to make a set of Hamilton's dueling pistols and I've these don't show up very well they don't show up very often they show up a couple of times a year they made 1200 pairs of these they made 1200 pairs of matched Flint firing Flintlock replicas of Hamilton's dueling pistols in fact they were his brother-in-law John Church Hamilton's brother-in-law um he these were his pistols and he had bought them uh he had come back from London with them in 1797 but he had bought them prior to or the pair he bought were am I getting ahead of myself I picked up a pair of these replicas at auction I paid right up the middle about what they're worth about what they cost which is just under a couple thousand dollars which is a lot of dough uh I decided it was worth the investment um and I'm really pleased it turns out it's not my first Uberti replica Uberti is a Company formed in Italy has this region where they've been making firearms for like a millennia Beretta is is stationed there along with a whole bunch of other Firearms companies um and Brett actually now owns zuberty but Verdi was formed in 1960 so 1959 um uh and with the goal to produce accurate replicas of old black powder weapons and so when I decided to get a really good army cult to be my Clint Eastwood Blondie weapon this is this is very this is the weapon that he uses in several of the Good Bad and the Ugly films this Army cult I put the snakes on and they're not perfectly accurate I'm going to replay them please Don't Judge Me for these right now they're just kind of middling at any rate I picked up an uberity replica thinking this is great this is about as accurate as it gets it turns out it's more accurate than that because Uberti supplied all the firearms for all of Sergio Leone's films how about that I did not know that until I was researching this so I already had a lovely Uberti replica and frankly I was impressed with this piece when I got it um the etching on the barrel and I'll shoot some b-roll so you can see this um the etching on the barrel the castings the metal treatment the wood everything about this is a gorgeous piece really really well done um on the low end of firearm replicas uh is denix and these are made of I don't know match boxes and they're really they're like pot metal they're they're cat they're die cast and I I'm sorry I don't mean to throw shade on them because frankly they were my first replicas uh that I you know modified to make my Han Solo Blaster and they've been used as the base of countless sci-fi guns and they've been used in tons of movies and all of that stuff um so the real Hamilton pistols are the real there is a pair of pistols uh that have as Ron trinos says the highest degree of probability of being the original dueling pistols and these are the pistols used uh in the famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and vice president vice president Aaron Burr um those pistols which were bought by Frederick sorry John Church as I said in London in the late 19th century uh he lent them to the duel they're apparently also the pistols used in the Philip uh in Hamilton's son Phillips duel which is super tragic um and those pistols ended up uh going through the Civil War one of them was modified to be a percussion cap pistol as opposed to a Flintlock so they don't quite match anymore but um they are owned by JP Morgan Chase which was apparently started by Hamilton or partially started by Hamilton forgive me if I'm getting some of the bits of this I've been reading about this for days and trying to hold all the pieces in my head JPMorgan Chase owns The Originals they lent them to the American historical historical society and Uberti to be replicated and who barely made a magnificent replica of it and I'm gonna open it unbox it and we're going to talk about it because it is I was not prepared for how great these are I really wasn't um so here they are Hamilton's dueling Pistols made by uh wagden um and wagden was Ogden was the preeminent maker of dueling pistols in the late 19th century now that's a big claim because there was a bunch of them and I can't name them off the top of my head but any cursory search will yield a bunch of different makers of pistols in England at the time um here's how much wagden was in the public Consciousness as the um a a provider of tools for duels oh tools for duals I like that um duels were often called a quote wagden Affair okay so that is very much like yeah you you you claim some uh ignominious ownership of this space um wagden was uh the reason I know that church obtained his pistols before 1795 was because in 1795 wogton joined up with Barton and all of the pistols produced after that were stamped or not stamped but labeled walked in and Barton so these pistols saying only wagden were clearly produced before 1795. um they have some modifications on them apparently this brass 4 stock was a later Edition normally it was wood but uh the the the four stock was made heavier to provide a better aim for the for the Duelist the whole thing around dueling is super far out um they wouldn't rifle the barrels of dueling pistols although apparently some makers would put secret rifling far enough down you couldn't see it they didn't have flashlights in the late 19th century so they weren't like oh how can I tell by the way the second I got both of these pistols I ran a borescope uh video borescope down each of the barrels to make sure they were completely empty uh before mucking around any further so the brass four stock was added um they have front and back sites and they have a hair trigger um I haven't been able to find any data on whether you shouldn't or should drop you should or shouldn't dry fire your black powder pistols in general you shouldn't dry fire anything bows and arrows regular pistols but I just want to show you this is the normal trigger pull for a black powder weapon like this is it's a it's a couple pounds you can feel it however uh there is a way of setting a hair trigger which is to push the trigger forward and that makes it a much lighter touch boom very very light and there was this whole ethos to Dueling where you didn't like sit there and aim you actually you held your hand up and you came down and you fired when you were level and there was also this delay you like fire Boo and it would fire out I did find an early uh sorry a mid 19th century I'm getting my centuries mixed up I'm sure I've already messed up a couple times in this video but in the mid 19th century the mid 1800s um there was a book about the the spoken rules formerly the unspoken rules of dueling I found a first edition but I haven't bought it because it's expensive and I don't know that I need it I'm a completist so I get kind of wound up about that stuff um these have ramrods in them which were apparently uh uh also a modification that the original ramrods for this would have been wood um Uberti made this and sells it in a beautiful custom-made case which is not too dissimilar from the wagden cases of the period you know that I'm going to rebuild this case I'm actually not going to rebuild it I'm going to save it it is a little bit old and so this couple of joints are failing that's fine they can be re-glued but um more importantly I have reference material of wagden cases and they're accoutrement and I am of course going to make a much more accurate uh gun case for these but for right now they included uh some linen pads they included a dozen 54 caliber lead balls these are fireable and I intend once I have them checked out by a gunsmith and uh and such uh I intend to actually fire these at some point I I would love to hear them go I would love to see what kind of kick a 54 caliber round had um and I so I received them I opened them up they're absolutely gorgeous I love that they have complete functionality of The Originals up to and including the hair trigger um I have dismantled these and remantled them just to kind of familiarize myself with them they're just really lovely now there is some controversy uh specifically about these brass four stocks about whether this screw here under the four stock that goes into the barrel um is a inhibition or a crime against humanity I have been reading some forms in which some people feel the whole brass four stock Edition is a terrible thing that should have never happened uh these uh these the ramrods are apparently not original apparently the original ones were wooden and might have even had a powder measure in them um and when I when I purchased them before I got them I was thinking I may have to do some accuratizing of these because I have I have a bunch of reference material I was able to collect of the original pistols and the answer is there's not much accuratizing to do I came across one single detail I feel is not entirely accurate which is that this which I think is the barrel key this pops out and as part of the dismantling again I didn't get that that far in my dismantling uh in the original pistols this enters from the other side not this side so it looks like this on the hammer side of the pistols that is it that's the only detail I can find that is not exactly correct with the originals um more than that as I pour over the details the Fidelity and refinement of this replica is actually pretty shocking to me and quite magnificent uh the barrels are labeled uh A and B I have here number 748b this is 748a that is a matched pair um one of the ways in which these pistols or all the guns back then were marked is that they had etched markings of whether they were made under the Aegis of the uh the house of Windsor or which which armorer made them there's Maker's Marks there's Barrel proof marks there's all this kind of stuff going on and uh when you're making replicas while they etched The Originals the replicas are often stamps often those marks are stamped in and that's as far as I've come to understand and I'm sure people will correct me in the comments if I'm wrong that's one of the primary ways you can tell the difference between a replica and an original um well I'm here to tell you that the uh that the etching on this is so beautiful that I have pictures of the original and it's like one of my issues with modern replicas of things is that they're often too good right like today a firearms company replicating this would probably try and do a laser etch of this of whatever marks there were and they're just so perfect and I I'm always going back in my head to Terry English in his shop saying you know don't carefully measure if you have eight rivets around the cuff of a gauntlet don't carefully measure them to the thousandth of the inch just use a pair of calipers and go around it's clear he said when he's looked at original armor that they weren't knocking themselves out to get these perfect divisions and that lack of perfection alongside what is clearly a tremendous amount of hand work to make these things this checking on the handle uh that is not a CNC operation especially not in 1981 I believe this is like a person sitting there and checking every one of these handles and I don't mean I mean this this pattern is called check checkering and there are specific files and methods for doing this which I only know about I've never really looked into um the the details here around the brass four stock oh that's the one other feature in the original Hamilton pistols one seems to have a design at the end of the four stuck and the other does not hard to tell because close-up photographs are hard to come by but like everything about this feels like it had as much love put into it as an original piece and so as far as I'm concerned just under a couple of grand for the pair of D's seems like a freaking deal I know there's 1200 of them and that dictates a reasonable option price I'm glad I was able to purchase them um it is a level of craftsmanship which frankly I was surprised by because I don't own many I don't own I mean this is the only other Uberti piece that I own and like I said it's stunning um and I I you know prop collecting is often a an exercise in mild to great disappointment you know you you you you you you reach out you find something that you want you obtain it you have this idea about what it's going to be it arrives and it never is quite that ideal it's it's very rarely that ideal in this case it's not only that ideal it is absolutely exceeds my expectations in every way um the borescope showed me that there's very little corrosion down in the barrel again I'm before I fire these I'm going to have them fully checked out uh Etc make sure I go through the right procedures to make sure they're safe but they look really really good and uh I am super proud to have these in the collection uh and when I do eventually fire them I think we should shoot a video about it that would be fun um because I I'm trying to think I don't know if I've ever fired a Flintlock we had a um we had a civil war rifle on the show when we did the son of a gun episode uh and we all fired that but that was a mini ball that was a um that was a giant big piece of lead like probably three times the size and weight and volume of this thing um oh I also picked up oh I picked up a bullet mold a 54 caliber bullet mold oh that was the other things these are 54 caliber where the usual the usual dueling pistol was 50 caliber um oh that's there's another aspect of wagden that I really like um they were known for being the shooter's pistols they were highly accurate highly stable highly repeatable and frequently unadorned not a lot of jewelry not a lot of um uh uh filigree and stuff like that small amounts but tasteful amounts uh and you know within a cost benefit analysis that means they were spending their money on the precision as opposed to the decoration that's that's my takeaway um and I like that I like the idea that wagden was out there um I mean sorry I like that idea from a crafts perspective it sounds weird saying I like that idea when you're talking about these things that people buy to shoot each other over small disagreements which is absolutely barbaric and awful so let's be fully clear here I have noticed idea of it is if it is however within the historical context of loving the play loving the musical Hamilton uh having read the book and read actually most of tranelle's books at this point uh and loving this part of History looking into the early the Early American history um the next question is how do I display these and I'm not sure um like I said I will make a new box for these I think I have some oh boards that I can do some resawing on and uh make a really nice box for them and I do plan to fill it full of all the things that would originally have been in there and the one that I'm still trying to find is a nice little powder flask because I walked and shipped these with they would frequently ship these with a bullet mold a a wooden ramrod in addition to the whatever ramrod was in this and I'm not exactly sure why there was always often a two-piece wooden ramrod Maggie's here today um they also would include often a little Hammer a punch here or there uh uh and all for cleaning out the the the path for the powder that went from the the I don't need to walk you through exactly how a flintlock pistol works right now that's not the scope of this video but um yeah I'm super pleased to have these in my collection and now I'm going to shoot some lovely dreamy b-roll of them so you can enjoy them all close up well you've been enjoying them close-ups of this all throughout this video uh but you know you always shoot the b-roll last it's like the Overture um I will thank you guys for joining me for this reveal and I will see you next time hey guys Adam Savage from tested here if you've ever seen the six inch ruler in inches and centimeters on my forearm and wanted one of your own but you didn't want it to be permanent well today's your lucky day you can now buy temporary tattoos of my measuring stick my measuring forearm had tested dashstore.com comes like this goes on in about 30 seconds with a little water the instructions are on the back it comes off with rubbing alcohol and hopefully it warms you up to the idea of permanently attaching a measuring device to your body because I use mine every single dayvery exciting time hey everybody Adam Savage here uh I am back in San Francisco after some time in the beautiful city of Trieste in Italy but I'm back it's a lovely that's a lovely it is a cold and rainy Friday morning in San Francisco um and I have received something that I have been wanting for a long long long long time um I am a history buff among other things I also am weirdly upset weirdly obsessed with all sorts of different Weaponry from ye oldies swords to science fiction weapons um and also I love the musical Hamilton uh my wife and I went and saw the original cast on Broadway when the show first opened um it remains a singular theatrical experience for me and in researching my obsession I found out that in 1981 the American historical society teamed up with a replica firearm maker Uberti to make a set of Hamilton's dueling pistols and I've these don't show up very well they don't show up very often they show up a couple of times a year they made 1200 pairs of these they made 1200 pairs of matched Flint firing Flintlock replicas of Hamilton's dueling pistols in fact they were his brother-in-law John Church Hamilton's brother-in-law um he these were his pistols and he had bought them uh he had come back from London with them in 1797 but he had bought them prior to or the pair he bought were am I getting ahead of myself I picked up a pair of these replicas at auction I paid right up the middle about what they're worth about what they cost which is just under a couple thousand dollars which is a lot of dough uh I decided it was worth the investment um and I'm really pleased it turns out it's not my first Uberti replica Uberti is a Company formed in Italy has this region where they've been making firearms for like a millennia Beretta is is stationed there along with a whole bunch of other Firearms companies um and Brett actually now owns zuberty but Verdi was formed in 1960 so 1959 um uh and with the goal to produce accurate replicas of old black powder weapons and so when I decided to get a really good army cult to be my Clint Eastwood Blondie weapon this is this is very this is the weapon that he uses in several of the Good Bad and the Ugly films this Army cult I put the snakes on and they're not perfectly accurate I'm going to replay them please Don't Judge Me for these right now they're just kind of middling at any rate I picked up an uberity replica thinking this is great this is about as accurate as it gets it turns out it's more accurate than that because Uberti supplied all the firearms for all of Sergio Leone's films how about that I did not know that until I was researching this so I already had a lovely Uberti replica and frankly I was impressed with this piece when I got it um the etching on the barrel and I'll shoot some b-roll so you can see this um the etching on the barrel the castings the metal treatment the wood everything about this is a gorgeous piece really really well done um on the low end of firearm replicas uh is denix and these are made of I don't know match boxes and they're really they're like pot metal they're they're cat they're die cast and I I'm sorry I don't mean to throw shade on them because frankly they were my first replicas uh that I you know modified to make my Han Solo Blaster and they've been used as the base of countless sci-fi guns and they've been used in tons of movies and all of that stuff um so the real Hamilton pistols are the real there is a pair of pistols uh that have as Ron trinos says the highest degree of probability of being the original dueling pistols and these are the pistols used uh in the famous duel between Alexander Hamilton and vice president vice president Aaron Burr um those pistols which were bought by Frederick sorry John Church as I said in London in the late 19th century uh he lent them to the duel they're apparently also the pistols used in the Philip uh in Hamilton's son Phillips duel which is super tragic um and those pistols ended up uh going through the Civil War one of them was modified to be a percussion cap pistol as opposed to a Flintlock so they don't quite match anymore but um they are owned by JP Morgan Chase which was apparently started by Hamilton or partially started by Hamilton forgive me if I'm getting some of the bits of this I've been reading about this for days and trying to hold all the pieces in my head JPMorgan Chase owns The Originals they lent them to the American historical historical society and Uberti to be replicated and who barely made a magnificent replica of it and I'm gonna open it unbox it and we're going to talk about it because it is I was not prepared for how great these are I really wasn't um so here they are Hamilton's dueling Pistols made by uh wagden um and wagden was Ogden was the preeminent maker of dueling pistols in the late 19th century now that's a big claim because there was a bunch of them and I can't name them off the top of my head but any cursory search will yield a bunch of different makers of pistols in England at the time um here's how much wagden was in the public Consciousness as the um a a provider of tools for duels oh tools for duals I like that um duels were often called a quote wagden Affair okay so that is very much like yeah you you you claim some uh ignominious ownership of this space um wagden was uh the reason I know that church obtained his pistols before 1795 was because in 1795 wogton joined up with Barton and all of the pistols produced after that were stamped or not stamped but labeled walked in and Barton so these pistols saying only wagden were clearly produced before 1795. um they have some modifications on them apparently this brass 4 stock was a later Edition normally it was wood but uh the the the four stock was made heavier to provide a better aim for the for the Duelist the whole thing around dueling is super far out um they wouldn't rifle the barrels of dueling pistols although apparently some makers would put secret rifling far enough down you couldn't see it they didn't have flashlights in the late 19th century so they weren't like oh how can I tell by the way the second I got both of these pistols I ran a borescope uh video borescope down each of the barrels to make sure they were completely empty uh before mucking around any further so the brass four stock was added um they have front and back sites and they have a hair trigger um I haven't been able to find any data on whether you shouldn't or should drop you should or shouldn't dry fire your black powder pistols in general you shouldn't dry fire anything bows and arrows regular pistols but I just want to show you this is the normal trigger pull for a black powder weapon like this is it's a it's a couple pounds you can feel it however uh there is a way of setting a hair trigger which is to push the trigger forward and that makes it a much lighter touch boom very very light and there was this whole ethos to Dueling where you didn't like sit there and aim you actually you held your hand up and you came down and you fired when you were level and there was also this delay you like fire Boo and it would fire out I did find an early uh sorry a mid 19th century I'm getting my centuries mixed up I'm sure I've already messed up a couple times in this video but in the mid 19th century the mid 1800s um there was a book about the the spoken rules formerly the unspoken rules of dueling I found a first edition but I haven't bought it because it's expensive and I don't know that I need it I'm a completist so I get kind of wound up about that stuff um these have ramrods in them which were apparently uh uh also a modification that the original ramrods for this would have been wood um Uberti made this and sells it in a beautiful custom-made case which is not too dissimilar from the wagden cases of the period you know that I'm going to rebuild this case I'm actually not going to rebuild it I'm going to save it it is a little bit old and so this couple of joints are failing that's fine they can be re-glued but um more importantly I have reference material of wagden cases and they're accoutrement and I am of course going to make a much more accurate uh gun case for these but for right now they included uh some linen pads they included a dozen 54 caliber lead balls these are fireable and I intend once I have them checked out by a gunsmith and uh and such uh I intend to actually fire these at some point I I would love to hear them go I would love to see what kind of kick a 54 caliber round had um and I so I received them I opened them up they're absolutely gorgeous I love that they have complete functionality of The Originals up to and including the hair trigger um I have dismantled these and remantled them just to kind of familiarize myself with them they're just really lovely now there is some controversy uh specifically about these brass four stocks about whether this screw here under the four stock that goes into the barrel um is a inhibition or a crime against humanity I have been reading some forms in which some people feel the whole brass four stock Edition is a terrible thing that should have never happened uh these uh these the ramrods are apparently not original apparently the original ones were wooden and might have even had a powder measure in them um and when I when I purchased them before I got them I was thinking I may have to do some accuratizing of these because I have I have a bunch of reference material I was able to collect of the original pistols and the answer is there's not much accuratizing to do I came across one single detail I feel is not entirely accurate which is that this which I think is the barrel key this pops out and as part of the dismantling again I didn't get that that far in my dismantling uh in the original pistols this enters from the other side not this side so it looks like this on the hammer side of the pistols that is it that's the only detail I can find that is not exactly correct with the originals um more than that as I pour over the details the Fidelity and refinement of this replica is actually pretty shocking to me and quite magnificent uh the barrels are labeled uh A and B I have here number 748b this is 748a that is a matched pair um one of the ways in which these pistols or all the guns back then were marked is that they had etched markings of whether they were made under the Aegis of the uh the house of Windsor or which which armorer made them there's Maker's Marks there's Barrel proof marks there's all this kind of stuff going on and uh when you're making replicas while they etched The Originals the replicas are often stamps often those marks are stamped in and that's as far as I've come to understand and I'm sure people will correct me in the comments if I'm wrong that's one of the primary ways you can tell the difference between a replica and an original um well I'm here to tell you that the uh that the etching on this is so beautiful that I have pictures of the original and it's like one of my issues with modern replicas of things is that they're often too good right like today a firearms company replicating this would probably try and do a laser etch of this of whatever marks there were and they're just so perfect and I I'm always going back in my head to Terry English in his shop saying you know don't carefully measure if you have eight rivets around the cuff of a gauntlet don't carefully measure them to the thousandth of the inch just use a pair of calipers and go around it's clear he said when he's looked at original armor that they weren't knocking themselves out to get these perfect divisions and that lack of perfection alongside what is clearly a tremendous amount of hand work to make these things this checking on the handle uh that is not a CNC operation especially not in 1981 I believe this is like a person sitting there and checking every one of these handles and I don't mean I mean this this pattern is called check checkering and there are specific files and methods for doing this which I only know about I've never really looked into um the the details here around the brass four stock oh that's the one other feature in the original Hamilton pistols one seems to have a design at the end of the four stuck and the other does not hard to tell because close-up photographs are hard to come by but like everything about this feels like it had as much love put into it as an original piece and so as far as I'm concerned just under a couple of grand for the pair of D's seems like a freaking deal I know there's 1200 of them and that dictates a reasonable option price I'm glad I was able to purchase them um it is a level of craftsmanship which frankly I was surprised by because I don't own many I don't own I mean this is the only other Uberti piece that I own and like I said it's stunning um and I I you know prop collecting is often a an exercise in mild to great disappointment you know you you you you you you reach out you find something that you want you obtain it you have this idea about what it's going to be it arrives and it never is quite that ideal it's it's very rarely that ideal in this case it's not only that ideal it is absolutely exceeds my expectations in every way um the borescope showed me that there's very little corrosion down in the barrel again I'm before I fire these I'm going to have them fully checked out uh Etc make sure I go through the right procedures to make sure they're safe but they look really really good and uh I am super proud to have these in the collection uh and when I do eventually fire them I think we should shoot a video about it that would be fun um because I I'm trying to think I don't know if I've ever fired a Flintlock we had a um we had a civil war rifle on the show when we did the son of a gun episode uh and we all fired that but that was a mini ball that was a um that was a giant big piece of lead like probably three times the size and weight and volume of this thing um oh I also picked up oh I picked up a bullet mold a 54 caliber bullet mold oh that was the other things these are 54 caliber where the usual the usual dueling pistol was 50 caliber um oh that's there's another aspect of wagden that I really like um they were known for being the shooter's pistols they were highly accurate highly stable highly repeatable and frequently unadorned not a lot of jewelry not a lot of um uh uh filigree and stuff like that small amounts but tasteful amounts uh and you know within a cost benefit analysis that means they were spending their money on the precision as opposed to the decoration that's that's my takeaway um and I like that I like the idea that wagden was out there um I mean sorry I like that idea from a crafts perspective it sounds weird saying I like that idea when you're talking about these things that people buy to shoot each other over small disagreements which is absolutely barbaric and awful so let's be fully clear here I have noticed idea of it is if it is however within the historical context of loving the play loving the musical Hamilton uh having read the book and read actually most of tranelle's books at this point uh and loving this part of History looking into the early the Early American history um the next question is how do I display these and I'm not sure um like I said I will make a new box for these I think I have some oh boards that I can do some resawing on and uh make a really nice box for them and I do plan to fill it full of all the things that would originally have been in there and the one that I'm still trying to find is a nice little powder flask because I walked and shipped these with they would frequently ship these with a bullet mold a a wooden ramrod in addition to the whatever ramrod was in this and I'm not exactly sure why there was always often a two-piece wooden ramrod Maggie's here today um they also would include often a little Hammer a punch here or there uh uh and all for cleaning out the the the path for the powder that went from the the I don't need to walk you through exactly how a flintlock pistol works right now that's not the scope of this video but um yeah I'm super pleased to have these in my collection and now I'm going to shoot some lovely dreamy b-roll of them so you can enjoy them all close up well you've been enjoying them close-ups of this all throughout this video uh but you know you always shoot the b-roll last it's like the Overture um I will thank you guys for joining me for this reveal and I will see you next time hey guys Adam Savage from tested here if you've ever seen the six inch ruler in inches and centimeters on my forearm and wanted one of your own but you didn't want it to be permanent well 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