Sale 1987
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$800 – $1,200
.45 caliber. 34" pinned octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass furniture, faux striped hardwood full stock with checkered wrist and raised cheek rest. Weak two-line barrel markings is only partially legible with "LAN PA" readable. Unmarked single screw commercial percussion lock with replaced mainspring and mounting screw. Engraved brass oval patchbox in obverse butt. Crescent brass buttplate, toe plate, spurred triggerguard, nose cap and ramrod pipes. Dovetailed fixed notch rear sight, dovetailed brass blade front sight. Includes a wood ramrod.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Good. Metal with a moderately oxidized brown patina, showing some surface roughness and pitting. Lock functional, bore fair, very dark and dirty with moderate pitting and no visible rifling. Wood worn with finish loss, repaired cracks in the forend, scattered bumps, dings and mars and some wear to the checkering at the wrist.
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Associate Vice President, Head of Department, Arms, Armor and Militaria