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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
.52 caliber. 41.5" pinned smoothbore octagonal barrel.SN: NSN. Oxidized metal, brass furniture, full-length hardwood stock with raised cheek rest. Single-screw commercial percussion lock is lightly engraved and marked "Henry Parker/Warranted". Lock is somewhat ill fitting and may be a replacement. Barrel with drum bolster may be an alteration from flint. Barrel weakly marked on top flat "H.E. LEMAN" and "WARRANTED". Rifle is mounted with a traditional Lancaster-style four-piece brass patchbox, crescent buttplate and plain toe plate that doubles as the patchbox release. Additional furniture includes an extended finger spur triggerguard, nose cap, two corrugated trade gun style ramrod thimbles and a smooth entry pipe. A wooden ramrod is secured by the pipes. Barrel with a dovetailed rudimentary buckhorn rear sight and dovetailed brass blade front sight. A lovely smooth rifle in its simplicity that may have been made as trade gun or as versatile frontier long arm.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Good. Metal moderately oxidized with pitting that leaves the markings somewhat weak. Mechanically functional, heavily pitted bore. Brass with a rich, dark, uncleaned patina. Stock with scattered bumps and dings, and a significant repaired crack in the belly of the stock in front of the lock mortise.
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