Thanks for sharing that! They are cute - there's no doubt about that! But, like has been mentioned, they aren't 47% of the price of a big one!
I've seen miniatures though out the years that fellows have done and have always admired 'em. These reminded me of Myron Carlson, who sadly, is no longer with us. He always set up at Friendship and specialized in hand forged furniture for Virginia and Bean rifles. He was a master and one heck of a nice guy. He'd made some beautiful Bean style rifles and then got in to making miniatures of them - I don't remember the scale but I think it was perhaps around quarter size. They were beautiful. He always said that thee was more labor in to making the miniatures than the full size ones and I can believe it.
Thanks again for posting the thread - different and very nice!
