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FABULOUS PROFUSELY INLAID UNMARKED RIFLE FROM THE HUNTINGDON/SOMERSET COUNTY AREA.

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Firearms & Armory Start Price:1,750.00 USD Estimated At:3,500.00 - 6,500.00 USD
FABULOUS PROFUSELY INLAID UNMARKED RIFLE FROM THE HUNTINGDON/SOMERSET COUNTY AREA.
PLEASE NOTE (10/7/13): This gun is attributed to Peter Dormeyer. The last name is sometimes spelled “Dunmayer” as well. This gun is likely made by Peter Dormeyer in Bedford County. NSN. 41" full oct unmarked 36 Cal. rifled bbl. This rifle has an outstanding four piece engraved patchbox with 14 piercings. Rifle is handsomely decorated with thirty-two silver inlays and an intricate silver inlay around the bbl tang as well as a large oval silver inlay on the cheek engraved with the American eagle. There is a finely made 5-1/2" silver American eagle as a saddleplate which encompasses three of the silver inlays. Stock on this gun is curly maple and appears to have all of the original finish with some incise carving on each side of the rear ramrod entrance ferrule and with paneling running the full length of the forestock and breaking for each silver inlay. Brass sideplate has two piercings each of which encompasses a silver inlay. Percussion lock is signed "Henry Parker Warranted" for its Trenton, NJ maker. The brass ramrod pipes are 2-1/2" in length with a entrance pipe running 4-1/4". An outstandingly beautiful gun. CONDITION: Fabulous original condition. Small amount of the original stock varnish has been burned away along the bbl at the breech from ignition. Elaborate silver inlay on the butt behind the cheekpiece has two silver wire nails missing that should be replaced. Otherwise this gun is excellent. 4-49150 RG79