PISTOL

Description: SIX PIECES INCLUDES PISTOL, BOX AND FOUR PAMPLETS. PISTOL IS BLACK WITH SIMULATED BROWN WOOD STOCK AND GRIPS. PISTOL IS "POWERLINE MODEL 1200" AND IS SERIAL NO. "C937343". BOX IS YELLOW AND WHITE, 2 PIECE AND IS MARKED WITH AN "X" INDICATING "POWERLINE 1200. BOX BASE IS MADE OF FOAM. PRICE TAG ON BOX INDICATES IT WAS BOUGHT FROM WOOLCO OR WOODWARDS FOR "$29.95". PAMPHLETS INCLUDE TWO VERSIONS (FRENCH AND ENGLISH) OF OPERATOR'S MANUAL, AN "INTRODUCTION POWERLINE" PAMPHLET AND A CAUTION CARD

History: COLLECTION ORIGINALLY OWNED BY DONOR'S HUSBAND JOHN WIELER. WIELER COLLECTED FIREARMS THROUGHOUT HIS LIFE TIME. HE WAS BORN 20 APRIL 1926 IN RUSSIA, EMIGRATING WITH HIS PARENTS WHEN HE WAS 6 WEEKS OLD. THE FAMILY SETTLED IN WINNEPEG WHERE JOHN REMAINED UNTIL THE AGE OF 16, WHEN HE LEFT HOME FOR B.C.. HE SHOT HIS FIRST RABBIT AT AGE 11 AND LOVED CAMPING, HUNTING AND FISHING. PRIOR TO 1971, JOHN CAME TO THE COALDALE, TABER AREA WHERE HE MET HIS WIFE MARGARET. HE WAS COMMUNITY MINDED, VOLUNTEERING HIS TIME WITH THE ELKS, MASONS, KNOX UNITED CHURCH AND SCOUTS IN TABER. AS A SCOUT LEADER, HE WAS A HUNTING INSTRUCTOR. HIS GREATEST PRIDES WERE HIS FIREARM AND ARROWHEAD COLLECTIONS. HE DIED 19 JANUARY 1985.