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Lot 137
Sale 1987 - Frontier Firearms from the Lifetime Collection of Larry Ness
Jun 8, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$1,000 -
1,500
Price Realized
$600
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Fullstock Percussion Rifle by Truitt, Brothers & Co.
.38 caliber. 42" pinned octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass furniture, full-length hardwood stock. Unmarked, single screw commercial percussion lock is lightly engraved and equipped with double set triggers. Barrel with crude lead drum bolster and weakly marked "TRUITT BROs & CO/PHILADA" and with some lightly stamped decorations. Commercial brass furniture includes a plain oval patchbox, a crescent buttplate, a plain toe plate, extended finger spur triggerguard, two plain thimbles and a plain entry pipe. Includes an old wood ramrod. Truitt Brothers & Co worked in Philadelphia as "Importers and wholesale dealers in foreign and domestic hardware" (Sellers). Stockel lists them as operating circa 1860.









