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1012
$805.00

FINE SMALL HALF STOCK PERCUSSION KENTUCKY RIFLE. Cal. about 40. Fine Ohio type Kentucky with 30 5/16” oct bbl, thin blade front sight and fixed rear sight, unmarked with front action lock marked “J.H.JOHNSTON/PITTSBURG”. The bbl has a bottom rail with 2 iron guides and German silver nose pipe. It has a replacement brass ramrod. It has German, silver furniture with serpentine trigger guard, simple 2-pc patchbox, and plain crescent buttplate. It has a square initial plate on the bottom and round escutcheons in the forestock. It is mounted in a 1-pc walnut stock with raised side panels and a repaired crack through the wrist. CONDITION: Good to very good. Bbl retains 75 – 80% of its original brown finish. Stock, repaired as noted, retains most of an old refinish. Mechanics are fine. 4-52291 JR108 (400-700)


Auction: Firearms - Fall 2004
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