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Lot 94

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$3,500 - 5,000
Price Realized
$2,040
Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium

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Half-Stock Leman Percussion Trade Rifle

.45 caliber. 32.5" wedge retained octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Browned barrel, brass furniture, walnut half stock with raised cheek rest and pewter forend cap. Two-screw percussion lock marked "LEMAN/LANCASTER, PA" in two lines forward of the hammer. Barrel with drum bolster is marked "LEMAN LANCASTER, PA". Stock mounted with a lightly engraved four-piece floral final patchbox with a lightly engraved toe plate that contains the door release. Crescent butt plate, extended finger spur triggerguard, flat geometric two-screw side plate, iron pipes with old wood ramrod. Stock decorated with a lightly engraved German silver inlay on the cheek rest and numerous small brass brads that run from the tang to the comb along the top of the wrist, around the periphery of the cheek rest and right in front of the butt plate tang. A single brass tack has been added behind the side plate. A well used percussion rifle that has the wear, tear and earmarks of being a real frontier used rifle.

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