We can only hope! 
You da’ man, ExTank, thanks! 
Thanks for the head’s up Bear, I hadn’t noticed that this thread had resurfaced. Unfortunately I no longer have the gun (never did own it) nor any photos. My first words of advise to the guy who found them was to let me try to see what they are and don’t just let someone come in and give you $1000 for all of them… he didn’t, he took $1500 (I would have given him that just for the fun of research). I still see the guy from time to time (he is my sometimes mechanic) and I’ll ask him if he has any contact info for the guy who bought them. I know he drove up from Alabama (or someplace) to Indiana just to get them sight unseen.
I haven’t had a chance to check out your site yet but look forward to looking it over soon.
Nice site Alan! The over under you have pictured is exactly how I remember the gun he found.
If it wasn’t clear, I wasn’t the one who found the guns. My wife called me because the office assistant at her work told the story about her husband finding guns while remodeling. My wife called me because she knew I knew something about old firearms. We went and visited them a day or two later and I brought a few home to try to do some more research. I got a call a few days later saying we needed to return them right away because there was a guy driving up from the south who was buying them all.
I found out when meeting the guy for the first time that he runs a garage close to our house. Several years later I decided to try them out and have been going there off and on for the last few years. I asked him about the guns early on, and he said he never heard anything more from the guy so doesn’t know what they turned out to be. I really wish I would have just offered him a grand the first night I saw them… but I would have felt guilty about possibly (probably) screwing the guy over.
Spud,
Thank you for getting back with me. I’ve been trying to track down as many Sackett firearms as I can over the past three years or so and have found upwards of 14. So they’re rare to find and hardly resurface. If you ever find out any information from the guy in Georgia who purchased them, please let me know. Thanks again!
Sorry… Alabama. Isn’t it all the same?
Could have been Georgia… my memory isn’t great after all these years. I just remember some guy was driving up from the south with cash to “take them off his hands” sight unseen.
I see. Well, thank you again for responding. Please let me know if you hear anything!
No problem… I’m actually on vacation this week which is why I’m slow to respond to messages, but I’ll try to give him a call sometime next week. Unfortunately I think he was more interested in getting some cash in his pocket than finding out what he had found so I don’t know if he will have any contact info or not.
It is kind of neat to me, and hopefully to you that I held a piece of your relative’s handy work in my hands and admired it as a beautiful piece. Your site says they were made for normal use, but I thought it was a beautiful gun. He was obviously a fine craftsman.
Best of luck to you in tracking down further examples of his work.
Thank you! I have had a lot of fun researching Jacob and anything he made. While most of his firearms were for “normal use,” I’m sure he did make some custom pieces, like the over/under you held. He was indeed a very fine craftsman.
If nothing else, just a name could help… but I’ll take whatever you can get. Thank you again!