Inspection, ARMS!

Moving On and Thank You

By Tim Prince · Originally published January 2022 · p. 2

Moving On and Thank You I would like to thank everyone who has read the articles I have written for Civil War News over the last few years. I have enjoyed the writing opportunity Jack Melton offered me with this publication, and I hope that most of you have enjoyed reading what I wrote. However, after 63 articles, it is time to move on. Jack has a new publication project that will be launching in the spring; Military Antique Collector magazine, and I am honored that he has asked me to be a part of this new magazine. As most of you know, I am a fulltime dealer in antique arms, and also a “one man” business. I do everything myself, from finding the items I sell, photographing them, researching them, describing them, putting them on the website, and then shipping them to the buyer. As a result, between maintaining my website, traveling to the many shows that I attend, doing the appraising and consulting that I do, attending Antiques Roadshow tapings, it has been hard to find time to write the quality articles for Civil War News that you have come to expect from me. This new publication will be a bi-monthly magazine, helping reduce my work load a little and will better fit with my available time to write. By the same token, the new magazine will allow me to branch out and write about arms that are not specifically related to the Civil War. I am really looking forward to exploring some new fields with the readers. I am not leaving the team of writers at Civil War News completely, but I will probably only be contributing a couple of articles a year in the future. For those of you who want to continue reading about the various arms that I find interesting, I hope you will subscribe to Jack’s new periodical. Based upon the sample issue that I have seen; it will be a very high-quality publication. So, this is not so much a “goodbye,” but more of an, “until we meet again.” I hope you will be reading my new work very soon.