Sale 1987
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$2,000 – $3,000
.60 caliber. 41.625" pinned three-stage octagon to round barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass and iron furniture, full-length walnut stock. Percussion altered flint lock is crudely converted without filling of the external flint battery holes and a crudely made percussion hammer is in place. The lock is marked with the "{Circle-Fox}" logo forward of the hammer with the same logo found on the top flat of the barrel. Upper left breech flat with Birmingham commercial proof marks. Not maker marked. Traditional trade gun features include the brass three-screw dragon motif serpent side plate, oversized iron triggerguard, screwed flat brass buttplate and corrugated brass ramrod pipes. Stock with the usual simple raised carved aprons around the tang and at the rear of the lock mortise and counterpane. Fixed notch rear sight, blade front sight. No ramrod.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Good. Metal moderately oxidized with scattered surface roughness, some scattered pitting and mostly legible markings. Lock mechanically functional, bore fair, dark and moderately oxidized with pitting. Stock with moderate wear, showing wood loss around the pin holes, as well as some missing pins, missing the middle rammer pipe and showing scattered areas of minor slivered and chipped wood loss along the forend. Otherwise wood with bumps, dings and mars as would be expected.
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