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Lot 100
Sale 1987 - Frontier Firearms from the Lifetime Collection of Larry Ness
Jun 8, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$3,000 -
5,000
Price Realized
$2,400
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Full Stock Leman Percussion Rifle Showing Native American Use
.52 caliber. 34" pinned octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Heavily oxidized metal, brass furniture, full-length walnut stock. Single screw commercial percussion lock is lightly engraved and unmarked. Barrel with drum bolster, is marked "H.E. LEMAN/LANCASTER PA" and "WARRANTED". Typical commercial cast brass furniture including plain round patchbox, crescent buttplate, finger extension triggerguard, ramrod pipes. Nose cap missing. Stock shows signs of having been heavily tacked, with the tacks now missing, leaving a large number of holes in the stock as well as a few brass shanks, also leaving the impressions in the wood from the tack heads. A heavily used and very authentic appearing Native used Leman rifle.











