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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
.56 caliber. 36" three-stage octagon to round barrel. SN: NSN. Bright finish, brass and iron furniture, full-length walnut stock. Enfield style percussion lock marked "BARNETT/LONDON/1884" in three lines forward of the hammer and with the Hudson Bay Company's "{Tombstone Fox/EB}" trademark at the tail. Brass dragon motif 3-screw serpent side plate, flat brass 5-screw buttplate, oversized iron triggerguard, corrugated brass ramrod pipes secure an old wood ramrod. Stock with simple raised carved aprons around the tang, at the tail of the lock and at the tail of the counterpane. The initials "A.D." are weakly carved into the upper obverse corner of the butt. A solid example of a late production Barnett trade gun from the last days of freedom for Native American people on the Great Plains.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Good. Metal with a mottled gray patina showing scattered oxidation and moderate pitting, especially around the breech and bolster area. Mechanically functional lock, with skirt of hammer nose damaged. Bore fair, and pitted. Stock lightly sanded with scattered bumps, dings and mars, as well as some chipped loss at the reverse forend tip.
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Tim Carey
Associate Vice President, Head of Department, Arms, Armor and Militaria
