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Lot 120

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$1,000 - 2,000
Price Realized
$1,440
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Fullstock Percussion Rifle by Conestoga Rifle Works with Applied "Hancock Richmond" Tobacco Tag Decorations

.44 caliber. 45.75" pinned octagonal barrel. SN: NSN.Heavily oxidized metal, brass and iron furniture, hardwood full-length stock with rudimentary cheek rest. Single screw percussion lock is marked "CONESTOGA/RIFLE WORKS". Lock equipped with double set triggers. Crescent brass buttplate, iron furniture includes finger extension triggerguard and ramrod pipes that secure a short and splintered wood ramrod. Mid-length, two-screw tang, dovetailed notch rear sight, dovetailed Germans silver front sight blade with brass base. Stock is decorated with thirty-eight .685" diameter round iron tobacco tags that are embossed "HANCOCK RICHMOND VA" around their periphery. The tags are primarily applied to the obverse butt and the cheek rest but are also present on the forend and counterpane.  Hancock was a Richmond based tobacco company during the mid-1800s. As noted in Mr. Ness' attached tag, "This Indian liked the decoration."

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