Frontier Firearms from the Lifetime Collection of Larry Ness

Good. Guns shows moderate wear and heavy use with moderately oxidized metal with surface oxidation and some pitting. Markings on lock legible, lock mechanically functional. Hammer skirt chipped and damaged, hammer possibly an old replacement, hammer screw replaced. Bore fair, heavily oxidized with moderate pitting and strong rifling. Stock with wear, showing wood loss due to burn out at the bolster, gapping at the lock mortise and some cracks around the mortise. Forend with several old cracks and slivered loss along the upper edge on the reverse.

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