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Lot 143

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$2,000 - 3,000
Price Realized
$1,440
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Leman Heavy Barreled "Bear" Plains Rifle

.62 caliber. 32" heavy octagon, wedge retained barrel. SN: NSN. Heavily oxidized brown patina on metal, iron furniture, walnut half-stock with single key, German silver decorations and nose cap. Lightly engraved front action percussion lock marked "LEMAN" under the bolster, top flat of barrel also marked "LEMAN" and "WARRANTED". Lock with double set triggers, heavy barrel with German silver and gold bands at breech and a long, two-screw tang. Stock with raised cheekrest and mounted with a four-piece iron patchbox the release in the toe plate, patchbox door replaced during the period of use with a piece of copper that is well fit to the box. Crescent iron buttplate and toe plate, iron triggerguard with finger extensions, iron barrel under rib, two iron thimbles and a period of use added iron saddle plate between entry pipe and triggerguard. Dovetailed fixed buckhorn rear sight, dovetailed German silver Rocky Mountain front sight. Includes brass tipped wood ramrod that is a more recent replacement.

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