What makes a gun collectible? For most collectors, the many possible factors include make and model, condition, rarity, history, artistry, and craftsmanship. How to weigh those factors is subjective, but a strong tie to the singular history of the American West puts a covetous smile on the fascinated face of a gun aficionado almost every time. Whether the stock sits nicely against your shoulder and cheek hardly seems consequential when that stock is embedded with 150-year-old tacks that convey a message in Cheyenne pictographs and the gun's provenance is “passed down through the Custer family for generations.”
Such is the case with the Sharps George Armstrong Custer Indian Capture Carbine — a real firearm-as-showpiece/museum-piece.
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