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Lot 39

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$800 - 1,200
Price Realized
$780
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Lot Description

Percussion Altered Trade Musket by Wheeler & Son

.62 caliber. 36.25" pinned round barrel. SN: NSN. Bright finish, brass and iron furniture, walnut stock. Pointed, early pattern flint lock altered to percussion and marked with the "{Circle-Fox}" trademark under the drum bolster and "WHEELER/& SON" in a two line arc at the tail. Breech with post-1813 Birmingham commercial proof marks. Buttplate missing, flat rudimentary S-shaped two-screw side plate, large iron triggerguard. Barrel possibly shortened 1"-2" with iron front sight blade, stock forend shortened 6"-8" with a rudimentary tip carved at the end. Retains a single corrugated brass ramrod pipe and is missing the ramrod.

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