Sale 1987
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$1,500 – $2,500
.58 caliber. 30.5" pinned three-stage octagon to round barrel. SN: NSN. Oxidized metal, brass and iron furniture, full-length walnut stock. Enfield style percussion lock marked "BARNETT/LONDON/1885" and with the seated "{FOX/EB}" of the Hudson's Bay Company at the tail. Breech with London commercial proof marks. Brass three-screw serpent side plate, oversized iron triggerguard, flat screwed brass buttplate. Stock with raised carved aprons around the tang and at the tail of the lock and counterpane. A single corrugated brass ramrod pipe secures an old brass tipped wood ramrod.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Good to very good. Metal moderately oxidized with a thick brown patina, with some scattered surface roughness and pitting, primarily around the breech and bolster area. Mechanically functional, moderately oxidized and pitted bore. Stock with wear and showing use, with scattered bumps, dings and mars as well as some old cracking in the forend.
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Associate Vice President, Head of Department, Arms, Armor and Militaria