Slap my face and call me cartridge shooter, but this looks more like a Dixie Gun than anything else. I wouldn't be so quick to discount its value...yet.
If you're one of the gunmakers who was around in the era when us kids went from The MIckey Mouse Club to the rice paddies, please add something to this thread. Maybe somebody has an old catalogue somewhere?
I ain't dead yet, but I can see it from here, and I seem to remember that Numerich always had a rounded, uneven patchbox on their Minute Man Guns that looked like somebody spilled paint on the stock. This patchbox looks like a Belgian piece in guns that were new in the Dixie catalogue before they started selling parts and kits.
Somebody once told me that the reason the first catalogue guns came from Belgium was because, during the first part of the twentieth century, The Belgians were still selling guns in the third world and it was not hard for them to tool up when an Entrepeneur like Turner Kirkland showed up with a fistful of ideas. Sounds intriguing, and I always wanted to know if this was true.
I don't remember ever seeing a Roman Nose butt stock on a Numerich gun, and the wrist on this guy is way more substantial than I ever saw on one of their guns.
The ironic thing is that, if it was from the fifties or sixties, it may well be a collectors item in and of itself.
Be sure you're right, then go ahead...
