Sale 1987
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$600 – $1,200
.50 caliber. 38.25" wedge retained octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass furniture, full-length faux striped hardwood stock with checkered wrist and raised cheek rest. Single screw commercial percussion lock is lightly engraved and unmarked. Barrel with drum bolster is weakly marked "A GIBBS" and "LANCASTER". Lightly engraved Lancaster style four-piece brass patchbox, with release in toe plate, crescent buttplate, extended finger spur triggerguard. Dovetailed notch rear sight, dovetailed brass blade front sight. Simple brass pipes secure an old wood ramrod. Three small, plain German silver escutcheon plates are set into the toe line of the stock, the wrist and the cheek piece. Abraham Gibbs is listed as a gunmaker in Lancaster, PA during the mid-19th century.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Good. Metal moderately oxidized with scattered surface roughness and some pitting. Lock moderately pitted. Mechanically functional, fair bore with moderate pitting and visible rifling. Stock with some wood loss around the lock mortise, and burn out and cracked through mortise. Checkering with some wear, wood with some minor grain cracks, forend with chipped loss along the upper edge at the nose cap. Otherwise with scattered bumps, dings and mars.
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Tim Carey
Associate Vice President, Head of Department, Arms, Armor and Militaria