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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$5,000 – $7,000
.60 caliber. 36.75" pinned three-stage octagon to round barrel with baluster turned rings at the transitions. SN: NSN. Damascus patterned finish on barrel, brass furniture, walnut stock. Flint lock is percussion altered with a striker in the jaws of the flat faceted swan neck cock and a percussion bolster screwed into the touchhole. The lock is marked with a wild boar in a hunting horn at the tail and "SUTHERLANDS" forward of the cock. Barrel with Board of Ordnance proofs including a "{CROWN}/GR/{BROAD ARROW}". Chief's Grade gun with German silver Indian Chief motif thumb plate at wrist and lightly engraved brass furniture. Comb of stock dished with small finishing nails around the periphery suggesting that a cheek pad of some sort was added to the comb during the period of use. The firm of R&R Sutherlands was a partnership between Richard and Ramsay Sutherland that worked in Birmingham circa 1800-1827. They received a contract from the British Board of Ordnance to produced trade guns for the Native Americans that were allied with the British during the War of 1812 and during the period of 1813-1816 the firm delivered 2,587 guns (Gordon). This percussion altered Chief's Grade gun with Board of Ordnance proofs was likely part of the War of 1812 contract deliveries.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Good. Metal with a mottled and somewhat oxidized grayish-brown patina and showing remnants of what appears to have been a Damascus patterned finish. Metal is mostly smooth with some scattered pitting around the breech and bolster area. Lock mechanically functional, bore moderately oxidized with some pitting. Stock with scattered bumps, dings and mars but free of any breaks or repairs.
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