Sale 1987
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$1,000 – $1,500
.65 caliber. 37" pinned round barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass and iron furniture, full-length hardwood stock. Percussion altered flint lock with drum bolster is marked with the "{Circle-Fox}" trademark under the bolster and in two arched lines at the tail "WHEELER/& SON". Barrel with post-1813 Birmingham commercial proof marks. Flat S-shaped "New Land Pattern" side plate, oversized iron triggerguard, simple brass buttplate, corrugated brass ramrod pipes. Old wood ramrod.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Good. Metal heavily oxidized with scattered surface oxidation and some pitting. Lock functional, bore fair and heavily oxidized. Stock with moderate wear, some wood loss around the pin holes, missing some pins and with repaired cracks in the forend and at the front of the counterpane. Chipped wood loss around the lock mortise and under the sear, front of triggerguard secured with an old iron staple.
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