Frontier Firearms from the Lifetime Collection of Larry Ness

Good with moderate to heavy wear. Metal oxidized with scattered surface oxidation and some pitting. Mechanically functional lock, good bore is dark with strong rifling and moderate pitting. Skirt of hammer nose chipped, lock with some gapping at the tail. Stock with significant damage in the forend where the wedge was dislodged and the wood broken on both sides. The damage is very old as the wood is worn quite smooth. Further damage includes wood loss around a pin above the entry pipe, some chipped loss at the side plate as well as some loss due to burn out at the bolster. Otherwise with moderate wear, bumps, dings and mars.

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