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Lot 70
Sale 1987 - Frontier Firearms from the Lifetime Collection of Larry Ness
Jun 8, 2022
10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati
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Estimate
$1,500 -
2,500
Price Realized
$2,400
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
Conestoga Rifle Works Percussion Rifle Apparently Acquired on the Standing Rock Reservation
.45 caliber. 34" pin-retained octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Attic brown patina, brass furniture, walnut stock. Percussion lock marked in two lines "CONGESTOGA/RIFLE WORKS", top flat of barrel marked "P.A." Double-set triggers, dovetailed buckhorn rear sight, dovetailed blade front sight. Brass furniture includes buttplate, spur triggerguard, two faceted thimbles and the entry pipe and the nose cap. Stock with an old iron wrapped and brass reinforced repair at wrist and brass plate repaired crack in butt. Rifle includes a hand written tag that says the rifle was purchased from James O Aplan who acquired the rifle on the Standing Rock Reservation.









