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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$1,600 – $2,500
.58 caliber. 34.5" pinned three-stage octagon to round barrel. SN: NSN. Bright finish, brass and iron furniture, period shortened walnut stock. Percussion altered flint lock marked with the "{Tombstone-Fox}/IB" mark and marked at the tail in two lines "BARNETT/1802". Barrel with drum bolster conversion, crude percussion hammer, Tower private proofs and the "*/RB" mark of Robert Barnett. Typical trade gun features include the three-screw brass serpent side plate, oversized iron triggerguard, raised carved aprons around the tang and at the tails of the lock and counterpane and nailed brass buttplate. Stock shortened to "half-stock" length with an added iron pipe brazed to the bottom of the barrel, which secures a swelled shank tulip head ramrod of the U.S. Model 1855 or Model 1861 pattern.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Fair. Well worn and heavily used, metal cleaned to bright with gray metal showing scattered surface oxidation and some pitting. Tail of lock broken with rear screw loose. Lock is loose in mortise and does not function correctly. Fair bore with oxidation and pitting. Stock lightly sanded with some wood loss at the pin holes and a couple of cracks.
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Tim Carey
Associate Vice President, Head of Department, Arms, Armor and Militaria
