Arms, Armor and Militaria Online

Fair. Bore dark, dirty and rusted with weak traces of rifling. Metal heavily oxidized with moderate surface roughness and scattered pitting and a deep, dark brown patina that is untouched. Lock is mechanically functional but the hammer geometry is off, suggesting a replaced tumbler. Brass untouched. Stock broken and shattered through the wrist and heavily damaged with some wood missing and barely holding together, as only a small piece of corrugated metal driven into the reverse is securing the butt to the stock. The stock will almost certainly completely separate if the gun is shipped as it is so fragile and it will probably arrive in two pieces.

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