*TOM SELLECK’S SHILOH SHARPS RIFLE FROM THE MOVIE “QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER”, PROBABLY THE MOST FAMOUS MOVIE GUN IN HISTORY.

Revised: 10/1/2008

Additional Information: Included with the lot are Extracts from Appraisal by Phil Spangenberger and a notarized affidavit from Mr. Tom Selleck.

*TOM SELLECK’S SHILOH SHARPS RIFLE FROM THE MOVIE “QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER”, PROBABLY THE MOST FAMOUS MOVIE GUN IN HISTORY. SN 8886. Cal. 45 2-7/8 (45-110). This rifle is one of three that Mr. Selleck had created especially for his now epic Australian Outback movie “Quigley Down Under”. All three were used in the movie, however conversation with Mr. Selleck disclosed that this is the rifle that remained in the best condition and the one that he had elected to keep for himself. Mr. Selleck uses only his personally owned firearms in his movies, stating that he has found the rental agency firearms unacceptable and usually in poor condition. Mr. Selleck related to this cataloger that in the filming of this movie his intention was for the theme of the movie to revolve around the rifle rather than the character and that is one of the reasons the rifle was not uncased until Quigley’s arrival at the ranch when he was required to demonstrate his shooting prowess. Mr. Selleck stated that all of the material that accompanies this rifle was used in the movie and was created especially for the movie. Most of the items were created in duplicate, as with any movie there are always backup items just in case there is a malfunction so that production is not delayed. He stated that each of the items with this rifle were the ones that he selected to retain for himself and did so until late 2007 when he was tempted into selling them. Mr. Selleck stated that the other cartridge belt was probably retained by the prop master in Australia. One of the other Sharps rifles was donated to the National Firearms Museum of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the other was also donated to the NRA in 1999 to be raffled to support the shooting programs sponsored by the NRA, which raised several million dollars. Accompanied by a copy of a letter from the Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing Co. of Big Timber, Montana, which states that this rifle was “one of three specifically built for the motion picture ‘Quigley Down Under’, starring actor, Tom Selleck as Mathew Quigley”. It further describes the rifle with the gold inlay with sights with extra length of pull to fit Mr. Selleck. It also states that all three rifles were shipped to MGM Grand Studios, Hollywood, Cal. in 1989. This lot includes the following: Shiloh-Sharps rifle, a dummy aluminum barrel so that when it was installed the rifle could be handled more easily & effectively one-handed, the one & only fringed buckskin, decorated rifle scabbard, the tooled & buckstitch laced cartridge belt with laced on loops for 21 cartridges that now contain 13 dummy cartridges that Mr. Selleck stated were some of the ones he carried in the movie (others were given away as souvenirs), a fine stag handled custom Bowie knife marked “STAPAL” and its custom leather sheath with beaded & embroidered doeskin facing, a small wood & pewter handled boot knife and an autographed DVD of the movie “Quigley Down Under” having Mr. Selleck in full costume holding this rifle on the cover. It is also accompanied by a copy of the poster from the NRA depicting Mr. Selleck holding this rifle. Rifle & accessories are described as follows: Cal. 45-110 special made Shiloh Sharps Hartford Model with 34″ medium weight oct bbl, globe front sight and Lawrence Patent style ladder rear sight with vernier tang sight that has a 4″ staff. Mounted with very nicely figured, uncheckered American walnut with standard pewter tipped forearm & straight stock with Model 1859 patchbox in right side of butt and a smooth Sharps steel buttplate. Top flat of bbl is marked “SHILOH-SHARPS MODEL” with small flourishes of foliate arabesque pattern engraving at each end and the caliber is marked over the chamber. Right side of receiver has a 1-1/4″ x 5/8″ gold wire oval inlaid with the gold initials “MQ” and it has dbl set triggers. The dummy aluminum bbl is also 34″ and of the same dimensions as the real bbl with duplicate sights. The cartridge belt is about 45″ overall length, including the buckle & tongue billets. It is 3-5/8″ wide, of medium weight belting leather having tooled decorative edges with two panels of bucklace stitching which are the ends of the cartridge loop strap. Cartridge loops are laid out in patterns of three on each side near billet ends with fifteen more in the center. It has a square brass buckle and the buckle billet is riveted. The Bowie knife has an 8-1/2″ clip point blade with 4″ back grind and is 1-1/2″ at ricasso. Left ricasso is marked in script “Stapal”. It has an oval German silver handguard with a rnd stag handle with flat, bevel edged, German silver pommel cap. Sheath is nicely made of two pieces of belting leather with a wedge near the top and a long belt loop to fit over the cartridge belt. Sheath is faced with embroidered cloth and has beaded doe skin around the top. The boot knife has a 5-1/2″ flat ground blade almost 1/4″ thick with faceted walnut handle without handguard and with a pewter band near the blade & a pewter pommel cap. Rifle scabbard is 62″ long including a 9″ flap with folded & sewn edges. It is 8″ wide at the butt end x about 3″ at muzzle end with 21″ of fringe buckstitch laced along bottom edge at the muzzle. Entire face of one side has Indian style decorations in red, green & white. Certainly in recent memory and probably for all time, this is the single most famous firearm ever used in a movie. There are numerous famous actors who have a trademark firearm that was used in much of their career but none of their movies were actually built around the firearm as Mr. Selleck did with “Quigley Down Under”. The only one or two other firearms that come close would be “Winchester ’73” with Jimmy Stewart but that movie was built more around the characters than the rifle even though the Winchester One of One Thousand rifle did play a prominent role, it was relegated to second place behind the characters. John Wayne also made his large loop lever Winchester model ’94 carbine famous and used it in many movies, but it was never a featured part of any of his movies, whereas Mr. Selleck made this rifle the focus of Quigley Down Under. Offered without estimate. PROVENANCE: Tom Selleck, Actor. CONDITION: Rifle is very fine. Bbl retains about 95% thinning orig blue with a few light scratches and wear at the balance point on the bbl which is just over the bbl marking. Receiver, lockplate, lever, hammer, buttplate & patchbox retain about all of their moderately faded orig factory case colors, strong & bright in sheltered areas. Wood is sound with a few light scratches & nicks and retains most of its orig oil finish. Mechanics are crisp, bright shiny bore. Dummy bbl retains about 90% orig black anodized finish. Cartridge belt is lightly soiled & stained with light verdigris from brass cartridge casings and marks from the cartridges. Bowie knife has a dark patina in the hollow ground area and on ricasso. Handle is fine. Sheath doeskin facing is soiled & stained with some damage to the flap. Boot knife is a blue/brown patina with solid clean handle. Sheath is moderately soiled & stained but completely intact with orig buckskin ties. 4-35576 JR501 (Estimate: PLEASE CONTACT FIREARMS DIVISION)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2008

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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	1562	$0.00	Revised: 10/1/2008 Additional Information: Included with the lot are Extracts from Appraisal by Phil Spangenberger and a notarized affidavit from Mr. Tom Selleck. TOM SELLECK’S SHILOH SHARPS RIFLE FROM THE MOVIE “QUIGLEY DOWN UNDER”, PROBABLY THE MOST FAMOUS MOVIE GUN IN HISTORY. SN 8886. Cal. 45 2-7/8 (45-110). This rifle is one of three that Mr. Selleck had created especially for his now epic Australian Outback movie “Quigley Down Under”. All three were used in the movie, however conversation with Mr. Selleck disclosed that this is the rifle that remained in the best condition and the one that he had elected to keep for himself. Mr. Selleck uses only his personally owned firearms in his movies, stating that he has found the rental agency firearms unacceptable and usually in poor condition. Mr. Selleck related to this cataloger that in the filming of this movie his intention was for the theme of the movie to revolve around the rifle rather than the character and that is one of the reasons the rifle was not uncased until Quigley’s arrival at the ranch when he was required to demonstrate his shooting prowess. Mr. Selleck stated that all of the material that accompanies this rifle was used in the movie and was created especially for the movie. Most of the items were created in duplicate, as with any movie there are always backup items just in case there is a malfunction so that production is not delayed. He stated that each of the items with this rifle were the ones that he selected to retain for himself and did so until late 2007 when he was tempted into selling them. Mr. Selleck stated that the other cartridge belt was probably retained by the prop master in Australia. One of the other Sharps rifles was donated to the National Firearms Museum of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the other was also donated to the NRA in 1999 to be raffled to support the shooting programs sponsored by the NRA, which raised several million dollars. Accompanied by a copy of a letter from the Shiloh Rifle Manufacturing Co. of Big Timber, Montana, which states that this rifle was “one of three specifically built for the motion picture ‘Quigley Down Under’, starring actor, Tom Selleck as Mathew Quigley”. It further describes the rifle with the gold inlay with sights with extra length of pull to fit Mr. Selleck. It also states that all three rifles were shipped to MGM Grand Studios, Hollywood, Cal. in 1989. This lot includes the following: Shiloh-Sharps rifle, a dummy aluminum barrel so that when it was installed the rifle could be handled more easily & effectively one-handed, the one & only fringed buckskin, decorated rifle scabbard, the tooled & buckstitch laced cartridge belt with laced on loops for 21 cartridges that now contain 13 dummy cartridges that Mr. Selleck stated were some of the ones he carried in the movie (others were given away as souvenirs), a fine stag handled custom Bowie knife marked “STAPAL” and its custom leather sheath with beaded & embroidered doeskin facing, a small wood & pewter handled boot knife and an autographed DVD of the movie “Quigley Down Under” having Mr. Selleck in full costume holding this rifle on the cover. It is also accompanied by a copy of the poster from the NRA depicting Mr. Selleck holding this rifle. Rifle & accessories are described as follows: Cal. 45-110 special made Shiloh Sharps Hartford Model with 34″ medium weight oct bbl, globe front sight and Lawrence Patent style ladder rear sight with vernier tang sight that has a 4″ staff. Mounted with very nicely figured, uncheckered American walnut with standard pewter tipped forearm & straight stock with Model 1859 patchbox in right side of butt and a smooth Sharps steel buttplate. Top flat of bbl is marked “SHILOH-SHARPS MODEL” with small flourishes of foliate arabesque pattern engraving at each end and the caliber is marked over the chamber. Right side of receiver has a 1-1/4″ x 5/8″ gold wire oval inlaid with the gold initials “MQ” and it has dbl set triggers. The dummy aluminum bbl is also 34″ and of the same dimensions as the real bbl with duplicate sights. The cartridge belt is about 45″ overall length, including the buckle & tongue billets. It is 3-5/8″ wide, of medium weight belting leather having tooled decorative edges with two panels of bucklace stitching which are the ends of the cartridge loop strap. Cartridge loops are laid out in patterns of three on each side near billet ends with fifteen more in the center. It has a square brass buckle and the buckle billet is riveted. The Bowie knife has an 8-1/2″ clip point blade with 4″ back grind and is 1-1/2″ at ricasso. Left ricasso is marked in script “Stapal”. It has an oval German silver handguard with a rnd stag handle with flat, bevel edged, German silver pommel cap. Sheath is nicely made of two pieces of belting leather with a wedge near the top and a long belt loop to fit over the cartridge belt. Sheath is faced with embroidered cloth and has beaded doe skin around the top. The boot knife has a 5-1/2″ flat ground blade almost 1/4″ thick with faceted walnut handle without handguard and with a pewter band near the blade & a pewter pommel cap. Rifle scabbard is 62″ long including a 9″ flap with folded & sewn edges. It is 8″ wide at the butt end x about 3″ at muzzle end with 21″ of fringe buckstitch laced along bottom edge at the muzzle. Entire face of one side has Indian style decorations in red, green & white. Certainly in recent memory and probably for all time, this is the single most famous firearm ever used in a movie. There are numerous famous actors who have a trademark firearm that was used in much of their career but none of their movies were actually built around the firearm as Mr. Selleck did with “Quigley Down Under”. The only one or two other firearms that come close would be “Winchester ’73” with Jimmy Stewart but that movie was built more around the characters than the rifle even though the Winchester One of One Thousand rifle did play a prominent role, it was relegated to second place behind the characters. John Wayne also made his large loop lever Winchester model ’94 carbine famous and used it in many movies, but it was never a featured part of any of his movies, whereas Mr. Selleck made this rifle the focus of Quigley Down Under. Offered without estimate. PROVENANCE: Tom Selleck, Actor. CONDITION: Rifle is very fine. Bbl retains about 95% thinning orig blue with a few light scratches and wear at the balance point on the bbl which is just over the bbl marking. Receiver, lockplate, lever, hammer, buttplate & patchbox retain about all of their moderately faded orig factory case colors, strong & bright in sheltered areas. Wood is sound with a few light scratches & nicks and retains most of its orig oil finish. Mechanics are crisp, bright shiny bore. Dummy bbl retains about 90% orig black anodized finish. Cartridge belt is lightly soiled & stained with light verdigris from brass cartridge casings and marks from the cartridges. Bowie knife has a dark patina in the hollow ground area and on ricasso. Handle is fine. Sheath doeskin facing is soiled & stained with some damage to the flap. Boot knife is a blue/brown patina with solid clean handle. Sheath is moderately soiled & stained but completely intact with orig buckskin ties. 4-35576 JR501 (Estimate: PLEASE CONTACT FIREARMS DIVISION) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2008 Please Note:* All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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