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Lot 146
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.58 caliber. 35.875" pinned octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Browned barrel, iron and brass furniture, full-length walnut stock. Single-screw percussion lock is lightly engraved and marked "H.E. LEMAN/LANCASTER, PA". Leman barrel marking mostly obscured by oxidation and pitting. Heavy barrel measures 1.1" across the flats at the muzzle. Iron furniture consists of a repurposed US Model 1822/28 musket triggerguard without sling swivel and buttplate that has been narrowed and shortened. Brass furniture includes lock screw escutcheon and ramrod pipes which secure an old wooden ramrod. Dovetailed fixed notch rear sight and dovetailed brass blade front sight. Stock heavier and more robust than most Leman rifles of the period appears to be a recycled surplus musket stock, or was made in that style. An interesting economy interpretation of a large bore, full-stock Plains Rifle that uses some recycled US military musket parts and was produced with an economy of parts and decoration and an emphasis on durability.
This lot is located in Cincinnati.









