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Lot 213
Four American Percussion Plains RiflesAll Mid-19th Century
17 May 2017, 13:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,250 inc. premium
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All Mid-19th Century
All Mid-19th Century
All converted from flintlock, the first of 100-bore, with octagonal sighted barrel rifled with seven grooves and engraved 'J. Laughlin' along the top flat, plain tang, border engraved flat lock stamped 'H. Elwell Warranted' and decorated with game birds on the tail, artificially figured full stock, the butt flat along the bottom and with cheek-piece, brass mounts including curved butt-plate and spur trigger-guard, brass fore-end cap, set trigger, and later wooden ramrod; the others all of similar form, one with scroll engraved flat lock stamped 'Leman, Lanctr. Pa', the butt (toe incomplete) with shaped brass patch-box with hinged circular cover (all with some wear and pitting, one grip broken through and repaired with two brass straps); together with two powder-flasks, one formed from a section of polished cow horn, and with wooden base plug secured by iron nails, and the other with bag-shaped brass body embossed on one side with two greyhounds framed by oak leaves, a stag's head above and a fox's mask below, and with four split rings for suspension (worn and repaired) (6)
The first 93.3 cm. barrel
The first 93.3 cm. barrel
Footnotes
A Harry E. Leman is recorded in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, between 1812 and the year of his death in 1887








