Frontier Firearms from the Lifetime Collection of Larry Ness

Fair. Metal heavily oxidized with scattered surface roughness and some pitting. Mechanically functional, but lock is not crisp and hammer is loose on the tumbler with the hammer screw an apparently old replacement. Stock worn, cut back about 20", with splintered and cracked loss forward of the lock mortise, at the lock screw and at the surviving pin hole. Otherwise with some minor cracking in the forend and numerous scattered bumps, dings and mars.

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