Sale 1987
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$1,000 – $3,000
12 gauge. 32.5" barrels. SN: NSN. Browned barrels, iron furniture, straight-gripped walnut stock with checkered wrist and smooth splinter forend. Locks lightly engraved, right lock an old, likely period of use replacement, barrels unmarked, no visible proofs under barrel. Single barrel wedge with German silver escutcheons, breeches with gold bands, scroll triggerguard. Stock with numerous tack holes, with the tacks missing, showing empty holes as well as some with the square brass shanks still in the wood. Mr. Ness' notes indicate that the gun was acquired from a Native American family from the Standing Rock Reservation.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Fair to good. Well worn and heavily used, metal heavily oxidized with surface roughness and pitting. Mechanically functional, poor bores. Stock heavily worn with only traces of checkering, cracks, splintering and wood loss in the forend and bumps, dings, and mars in the wood.
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