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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
.45 caliber. 43" pinned smoothbore octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass furniture, full-length stock with raised, grooved cheek rest. Pointed commercial single screw percussion lock is lightly engraved and marked "TRUITT BROS/& Co". Top flat of barrel signed "H Albright" in script. Barrel with drum bolster, lock with single trigger. Mounted with brass four-piece Lancaster style brass patchbox which is lightly engraved and has a rudimentary horse head finial. Extended spurred brass triggerguard, flat two-screw side plate, brass nose cap and ramrod pipes which secure an old wood ramrod. Henry Albright (1772-1845) was born in Lititz, PA and was the son of Andrew Albright who was a German immigrant gunmaker who had worked at St. Blassien and relocated to Litiz in the late 1760s. Henry worked circa 1794-1845 in a variety of locations including Lancaster, Shippenburg and Nazareth, PA as well as Goshen, OH.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Very good. Metal moderately oxidized with a mostly brown patina and showing scattered surface roughness and some pitting. Lock mechanically functional, smooth bore good and moderately oxidized. Brass with a nice, uncleaned patina. Stock with scattered bumps, dings and mars, some wood loss around the pin holes and some old repaired cracks in the forend with added finish. Patchbox release not functional and box lid is stuck closed.
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