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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$2,000 – $3,000
.45 caliber. 38.5" pinned octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass furniture, faux striped hardwood stock with raised cheek rest. Unmarked, single screw commercial percussion lock, barrel marked "H.E. LEMAN LANCASTER, PA" and "WARRANTED". Simple commercial brass furniture including a finger spur triggerguard, simple round patchbox, crescent buttplate, plain toe plate, two corrugated thimbles and an entry pipe. Simple German silver enhancements with small ovals concealing the barrel pins, a lightly boarder engraved thumb piece, a feather at the reverse wrist and a lightly engraved star burst on the cheek rest. Fixed notch rear sight, dovetailed brass Rocky Mountain front sight blade. Wood ramrod.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Very good. Metal with a moderately oxidized brown patina with scattered surface oxidation and some light pitting. Mechanically functional, fair bore is heavily oxidized and pitted with no visible rifling.
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Tim Carey
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