.50 smoothbore. 29" pinned octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass furniture, full-length faux striped maple stock with raised cheek rest. Single screw percussion lock is lightly engraved and marked "LEMAN/LANCTR, PA". Barrel with drum bolster and no visible markings. Simple, unadorned commercial brass furniture includes a round patchbox, finger extension triggerguard, crescent buttplate, toe plate, nose cap and two thimbles. Includes a brass tipped wood ramrod. Dovetailed semi-buckhorn rear sight, dovetailed German silver blade front sight. Rifle may have been shortened slightly during the period of use to a handier, "stalking rifle" length, better for use on horseback and in thick brush. Provenance:The Collection of Larry Ness Condition: Good. Metal with moderate oxidation and a mostly plum patina, showing some surface roughness and some pitting at the breech and bolster area. Smooth bore good, moderately oxidized and with scattered pitting. Stock with scattered handling marks, bumps, dings and mars and with much of the faux finish worn away between the lock and ramrod entry.
.50 smoothbore. 29" pinned octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass furniture, full-length faux striped maple stock with raised cheek rest. Single screw percussion lock is lightly engraved and marked "LEMAN/LANCTR, PA". Barrel with drum bolster and no visible markings. Simple, unadorned commercial brass furniture includes a round patchbox, finger extension triggerguard, crescent buttplate, toe plate, nose cap and two thimbles. Includes a brass tipped wood ramrod. Dovetailed semi-buckhorn rear sight, dovetailed German silver blade front sight. Rifle may have been shortened slightly during the period of use to a handier, "stalking rifle" length, better for use on horseback and in thick brush. Provenance:The Collection of Larry Ness Condition: Good. Metal with moderate oxidation and a mostly plum patina, showing some surface roughness and some pitting at the breech and bolster area. Smooth bore good, moderately oxidized and with scattered pitting. Stock with scattered handling marks, bumps, dings and mars and with much of the faux finish worn away between the lock and ramrod entry.
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