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PERCUSSION RELIEF CARVED NEW ENGLAND KENTUCKY RIFLE.

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Firearms & Armory Start Price:2,250.00 USD Estimated At:4,500.00 - 8,500.00 USD
PERCUSSION RELIEF CARVED NEW ENGLAND KENTUCKY RIFLE.
NSN. 45-1/2" full oct 30 Cal. rifle bbl stamped "D.E.B.". This rifle has a very nice brass engraved four piece patchbox and is decorated with C scroll relief carving filled with a basket weave design on the butt end behind the cheek. Cheekpiece is decorated with silver wire inlay and the half-moon silver inlay on the cheek inside a silver wire circle. There is relief carving at the wrist end of the comb which is also decorated with silver wire inlay. Bbl tang is surrounded by relief carving. Percussion lock plate was made by James Golcher of Philadelphia. Bbl is held to the stock by four bbl wedges each of which is surrounded by silver inlay on both sides, four of which are in the shape of fish. 3-1/2" brass toe plate has three piercings two of which are heart-shaped. This cataloger would speculate the rifle was likely made by one of the Brown family of Cambridge, Massachusetts. CONDITION: A silver half-moon inlay forward of the sideplate is missing. 1-1/2" wood repair with new wood on the right hand side 15" back from the muzzle at the second bbl wedge with a small 1/2" rectangular repair on the opposite side of the bbl. Otherwise all the forend wood appears to be original to the gun. 4-48322 RG67