.40 caliber, 30.75" octagonal barrel, no SN. Browned and color casehardened finish, brass furniture, smooth varnished walnut buttstock with raised cheek rest and German silver patchbox, smooth forend with pewter nose cap. Barrel marked: T.P. Cherington. Plain back action lock with same marking. 7-shot Miller patent pill lock cylinder. Fixed buckhorn rear sight, dovetailed thin brass blade front sight. Wood cleaning rod. A very attractive example of a half-stock Miller patent "Billinghurst style" sporting rifle by T.P. Cherington Jr. of Catawissa, PA. Condition: Good. Retains traces of finish with a smoothly oxidized plum patina. Markings crisp and sharp, textured gripping lines on cylinder crisp as well. Mechanically functional, good bore with some scattered pitting. Stock with significant repair at the wrist where the rifle was completed broken and showing scattered bumps, dings and light handling marks.
.40 caliber, 30.75" octagonal barrel, no SN. Browned and color casehardened finish, brass furniture, smooth varnished walnut buttstock with raised cheek rest and German silver patchbox, smooth forend with pewter nose cap. Barrel marked: T.P. Cherington. Plain back action lock with same marking. 7-shot Miller patent pill lock cylinder. Fixed buckhorn rear sight, dovetailed thin brass blade front sight. Wood cleaning rod. A very attractive example of a half-stock Miller patent "Billinghurst style" sporting rifle by T.P. Cherington Jr. of Catawissa, PA. Condition: Good. Retains traces of finish with a smoothly oxidized plum patina. Markings crisp and sharp, textured gripping lines on cylinder crisp as well. Mechanically functional, good bore with some scattered pitting. Stock with significant repair at the wrist where the rifle was completed broken and showing scattered bumps, dings and light handling marks.
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