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General discussion => Antique Gun Collecting => Topic started by: vtbuck223 on August 28, 2011, 05:06:32 AM

Title: Help ID
Post by: vtbuck223 on August 28, 2011, 05:06:32 AM

I picked up some gun parts at a barn sale today...was wondering if anyone could tell me who this is. I hate the old script block letters I can never make them out. It says ??? Morgan  Petersburg ?? (Va....I presume?). Does anyone know who this is. I assume that this piece went with the barrels that you see...though it was not attached....the barrels appear to have Birmingham marks. Thanks for the help.
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Title: Re: Help ID
Post by: tallbear on August 31, 2011, 01:08:29 AM

Compliments of Jim Whisker

Morgan, William (-1876). gunsmith. 1850-76, 142 Sycamore St., Peters­burg, Dinwiddie County; born in Scotland [Gardner, 136]. He had a gun store on the west side of Sycamore St., Petersburg [Elliott & Nye's Virginia Dir., 1852]. 1861, Morgan Wm. & Bros., Sycamore [Dir.].

 

Morgan, William (1811-). gunsmith. 1851, Wm, Morgan & Bros., Sycamore, Petersburg [1851 State Directory]; 1861-63, corner of 7th and Main Sts., Richmond  [Gardner, p. 136]. 1880, William Morgan, gun smith, born in Scotland, 69; Alethea T. A., wife, 69; Alethea W., 24 [Census].

Title: Re: Help ID
Post by: vtbuck223 on August 31, 2011, 08:38:57 AM

Jim....thanks for the  great information.  I had also  found this reference from the book The Old South's Modern Worlds....p.198
"gunsmith William Morgan converted his workshop into a mercantile establishment he called the Petersburg Gun and Sporting Store".
Jeremy