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Frontier Firearms from the Lifetime Collection of Larry Ness
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- Sale 1987
Live
| Cincinnati
Jun 8 | 10:00 AM EDT
Live
| Cincinnati
Sale 1987
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$1,000 – $1,500
.58 caliber. 35.875" pinned octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Browned barrel, iron and brass furniture, full-length walnut stock. Single-screw percussion lock is lightly engraved and marked "H.E. LEMAN/LANCASTER, PA". Leman barrel marking mostly obscured by oxidation and pitting. Heavy barrel measures 1.1" across the flats at the muzzle. Iron furniture consists of a repurposed US Model 1822/28 musket triggerguard without sling swivel and buttplate that has been narrowed and shortened. Brass furniture includes lock screw escutcheon and ramrod pipes which secure an old wooden ramrod. Dovetailed fixed notch rear sight and dovetailed brass blade front sight. Stock heavier and more robust than most Leman rifles of the period appears to be a recycled surplus musket stock, or was made in that style. An interesting economy interpretation of a large bore, full-stock Plains Rifle that uses some recycled US military musket parts and was produced with an economy of parts and decoration and an emphasis on durability.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Good. Metal moderately oxidized with scattered surface roughness and some pitting. Barrel markings weak, lock markings clear. Mechanically functional, poor bore is dark, dirty and heavily pitted with no visible rifling. Stock lightly sanded with scattered bumps, dings and mars and some more modest impact marks in the forend.
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Tim Carey
Associate Vice President, Head of Department, Arms, Armor and Militaria
