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Lot 64

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$1,000 - 2,000
Price Realized
$4,500
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Native Altered Percussion Trade Gun by Isaac Hollis & Sons

.58 caliber. 31.5" pinned three-stage octagon to round barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass and iron furniture, walnut stock. Flat, Enfield style percussion lock marked with the usual Isaac & Hollis trademark at the tail and "I HOLLIS & SONS/LONDON" forward of the hammer. Left angled barrel flat with Birmingham commercial proofs and "24" gauge mark, indicating .58 caliber. Near relic condition shortened and modified stock with buttplate removed, an arrow design cut through the buttstock, the barrel shortened around 6" and forend shortened similarly. Three screw serpent side plate with rear screw missing, oversized iron triggerguard, two corrugated brass ramrod pipes with an additional sheet iron pipe added near the muzzle secured through a barrel tenon with an old nail. Pipes secure an old wooden ramrod. Stock with typical raised carved aprons around the breech plug tang and at the tail of the lock and counterpane. Stock with numerous added old tacks and many more missing leaving old iron shanks without heads in the forend and butt as well as some tack holes. A great looking, unmolested Native used and modified trade gun. 

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