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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$3,000 – $5,000
.58 caliber. 36" 3-stage octagon to round pinned barrel. SN: NSN. Bright finish, brass and iron furniture, full-length walnut stock. Percussion altered flint lock marked "TRYON/PHILADA" in two vertical lines at the tail. Three screw serpent brass side plate, large iron triggerguard, flat screwed brass buttplate. Stock decorated with numerous brass tacks along the wrist and forend, as well as German silver oval discs. Small sling swivel added to forend, with hole in toe line behind triggerguard tang that probably held a screwed-in swivel at some point in time. Barrel altered to percussion via the drum bolster method. Single corrugated ramrod pipe secures an old wooden ramrod. Mr. Ness' notes indicate that this gun was brought to the Watertown gun show by a Native American family. The notes further indicate that the gun is pictured in Charles Hansen's book on Northwest guns, but no further reference was provided and the book was not readily available to reference.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Good. Metal moderately oxidized with a grayish brown patina and with some scattered roughness and pitting, particularly around the breech and bolster area. Mechanically functional, fair bore is moderately oxidized and pitted. Brass with a mellow golden mustard patina. Stock with moderate wear, showing some slivered loss along the forend with numerous bumps, dings and mars, some missing pins and wood loss around the pin holes, as well as some chipped loss around the lock mortise.
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