Sale 1987
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$1,000 – $2,000
.36 caliber. 35.875" pinned octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass furniture, full-length stock with checkered wrist and raised cheek rest. Single screw percussion lock is ill-fitting and marked LEAMAN/LANCASTER, PA. Barrel with drum bolster and very weak "LEMAN" marking and marked "WARRANTED". Lock with double-set triggers. Rifle mounted with brass fittings that include a traditional four-piece Lancaster style patchbox which is lightly engraved, an engraved toe plate that operates as the door release, a crescent butt plate, an engraved saddle plate that matched the patchbox and toe plate, a plain nose cap, two corrugated thimbles and a plain entry pipe. German silver escutcheons are mounted on the forend and along the toe line of the stock.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Good, metal moderately oxidized with scattered roughness and pitting, barrel markings weak. Lock needs mechanical attention to function correctly, bore fair, heavily oxidized, pitted and with no visible rifling. Stock with scattered bumps, dings and mars and the typical repair at the toe.
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