Subscribe | UPI Odd Newsletter Subscribe RICHMOND, Va., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- A Virginia museum said it has recovered a Confederate revolver more than 35 years after its disappearance from the collection. The Museum of the Confederacy said the .36 caliber Spiller and Burr revolver, one of only 1,450 made during the U.S. Civil War, is believed to have been stolen while the museum was moving to a new building in 1975 and no trace of it was found until December 2010, WTVR-TV, Richmond, reported. Advertisement The museum said a Knoxville, Tenn., woman found the gun in the belongings of her late father and took it to an Ohio antiques dealer, who traced the item back to the museum. The revolver has an estimated value of $50,000 on the current antiques market, CNN said. Museum officials said it is unknown how the woman's father, a Civil War collector who never lived near Richmond, obtained the weapon. The handgun was returned to the museum and will go on display in February.
