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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$800 – $1,200
.58 caliber. 30" pinned three-stage octagon to round barrel. SN: NSN. Moderately oxidized metal, iron and brass furniture, full-length hardwood stock. Enfield style percussion lock marked "BARNETT/LONDON/1888" in three lines forward of the hammer, with the seated "{Tombstone-Fox}/EB" mark of the Hudson's Bay Company at the tail. Breech with London commercial proof marks and a "24" gauge mark indicating .58 caliber. Typical trade gun features include the brass three-screw serpent side plate, five screw flat brass buttplate, oversized iron triggerguard and raised carved aprons at the tang and tails of the lock mortise and counterpane. Two corrugated brass pipes hold an old brass tipped wood ramrod. A neat example of a very late production percussion muzzleloading trade gun.
The Collection of Larry Ness
Good. Metal moderately oxidized with scattered surface roughness and some pitting. Markings remain legible, lock functional, moderately oxidized and pitted bore. Wood lightly sanded with scattered bumps, dings and mars with some chipped loss at the comb, with some cracks in the forend and some splintered loss.
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Tim Carey
Associate Vice President, Head of Department, Arms, Armor and Militaria
