Image Lot Price Description

1589
$1,322.00

MODEL 1817 COMMON RIFLE BY HENRY DERINGER. SN NSN. Cal. 58. 36″ smooth bore bbl with front sight and rear sight located 8″ in front of breech, iron furniture with three bands and dbl-strap front band. Ramrod is old but not orig to gun. Left side of breech is marked “US” over “NWP” over a raised “P” in a sunken rosette and dated “1841” at the breech tang. Both inspector stamp marks are present on left side of stock, but only “WAT” is legible. Right side of stock has orig iron patch box. Lockplate is marked “US” over “DERINGER” over “PHILA” under the brass pan, dated 1841 vertically behind the cock. PROVENANCE: R. Sadler Collection. CONDITION: Good to Very Good and is a reconversion. Buttplate and patch box have medium to heavy pitting with some slight wood loss in front of buttplate. Balance of metal is smooth with light pitting. There is a chip of wood behind left side of bbl tang and a burned out region behind the right side of bbl tang. There is an old repaired 4″ crack on left side of stock, along with several other smaller stress cracks not affecting soundness of stock. Forestock from lower band out is a nice, old replacement, as has the middle band. Upper band appears to be an orig. 4-31956 PS2 (1,500-2,500)


Auction: Firearms - Spring 2008
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