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Rock Island Auction Company
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Premiere Firearms Auction
Premiere Firearms Auction
Auction Currency
USD
Auction Location
7819 42nd St West
,
Rock Island
,
Illinois
,
61201
,
United States
Auction Details
Rock Island Auction Company is proud to continue the 2012 auction season with our September Premier Sale, a superb assembly of arms featuring the 3rd installment of the William Ashby Collection, the noted Gateway Collection which includes a number of ultra-rare Colts, and an assortment of rare and high condition Civil War arms.
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3100 -
Civil War Savage Revolving Fire-Arms Co. Navy Model Percussion Revolver
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $1800 - 2750 Approximately 20,000 of these unique revolvers were manufactured from 1861 to around 1865. Approximately 12,000 were purchas
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,800.00 - 2,750.00
Sold to floor for 2,750.00
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Scarce Sharps Breech Loading Single Shot Pistol
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $1400 - 2250 Manufactured from 1854 to 1857, approximately 850 of the two types of single shot breech loading pistols were manufactured b
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,400.00 - 2,250.00
Sold to floor for 2,750.00
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3102 -
Civil War U.S. Contract Starr 1858 Double Action Army Revolver
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $1600 - 2250 Approximately 23,000 of these revolvers were manufactured in the late 1850s and early 1860s, most of them for the U.S. gover
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,600.00 - 2,250.00
Sold to floor for 2,000.00
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3103 -
Rare Civil War U.S. Army Model 1861 Percussion Signal Pistol
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $2750 - 4250 This is one of the estimated 500 Army Model 1861 Signal Pistols manufactured by William Marston of New York. All brass const
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 2,750.00 - 4,250.00
Sold to floor for 5,500.00
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3104 -
Very Rare Finest Lee Single Shot Carbine in Existence
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $7500 - 15000 Manufactured circa 1864 to 1865 by the Lee Firearms Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a very limited number produced. T
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 7,500.00 - 15,000.00
Sold to floor for 20,000.00
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3105 -
Exceptional Spencer Patent Model 1865 Repeating Saddle Ring Carbine with Stabler Cut-Off
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $3750 - 6500 Fixed blade front sight and carbine style folding rear sight graduated to 900 yards. The top of the receiver is marked &qu...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 3,750.00 - 6,500.00
Sold to floor for 5,000.00
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3106 -
Martially Inspected Smith's Patent Breech Loading Civil War Carbine
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $2750 - 4250 The Smith Carbine was manufactured by the Massachusetts Arms Co., Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts and was one of the most impo
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 2,750.00 - 4,250.00
Sold to floor for 2,250.00
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3107 -
Five Assorted Spencer Cartridge Boxes and One Box of Spencer Ammunition
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $1200 - 1800 This lot includes three Winchester Repeating Arms Company Metallic Cartridge Boxes for Spencer Arms, 56-50, 56-56 and 56-46
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,800.00
Sold to floor for 2,500.00
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3108 -
Sharps New Model 1863 Carbine Metallic Cartridge Conversion
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $3500 - 4750 This is an example of one of the Civil War Sharps New Model 1863 Carbines that were converted post Civil War to fire the .50
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 3,500.00 - 4,750.00
Sold to floor for 4,500.00
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3109 -
Scarce Sharps Model 1851 Percussion Sporting Carbine
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $2750 - 4500 Manufactured from 1852-55 with a total production of about 1,857, some of which were sold on U.S. Army and U.S. Navy contrac
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 2,750.00 - 4,500.00
Sold to floor for 2,500.00
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3110 -
Civil War Sharps New Model 1863 Percussion Carbine
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $1400 - 2250 Manufactured from 1863 to 1865. The top of the barrel ahead of the replaced reproduction rear sight is marked with the three
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,400.00 - 2,250.00
Sold to floor for 1,600.00
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3111 -
Sharps Model 1852 Slant Breech Carbine
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $1500 - 2250 Manufactured from 1853 to 1855 by Robbins & Lawrence of Windsor, Vermont, with a total production of approximately 4,9...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,250.00
Sold to floor for 3,000.00
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3112 -
Non-Regulation Staff Officers Sword with Presentation Inscribed Scabbard and History
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $1500 - 2500 29 3/4 inch straight blade with etched scroll and patriotic decoration on the sides. Gilt brass hilt, with an "EKB&qu...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,500.00 - 2,500.00
Sold to floor for 4,000.00
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3113 -
Civil War Non-Regulation Foot Officer's Sword
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $1800 - 1750 Non-regulation Foot Officer's sword with French Klingenthal blade. The hilt is stamped with the encircled "three-...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,800.00 - 1,750.00
Sold to floor for 1,800.00
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3114 -
W.H. Horstmann Regulation Civil War Model 1850 Foot Officers Sword with Mounted Scabbard
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $1300 - 1900 Model 1850 Foot Officer's Sword with Solingen blade imported by W.H. Horstmann & Sons of Philadelphia. The sword h...
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,300.00 - 1,900.00
Sold to floor for 1,000.00
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3115 -
American Militia Officer's Sword with Scabbard
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $1200 - 1700 36 inch curved single fuller blade, with gold accented engravings in niter blue fields on each side. Silver finished hilt wi
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,200.00 - 1,700.00
Sold to floor for 1,200.00
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3116 -
German Production Ridabock & Company Non-Regulation 1860 Staff & Field Officers Sword with Scabbard
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $850 - 1300 31 inch straight blade with etched scroll and patriotic decoration on the sides, a small bear proof on the right ricasso, and
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 850.00 - 1,300.00
Sold to floor for 1,200.00
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3117 -
Sharps New Model Carbine Metallic Cartridge Conversion
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $1600 - 2500 This is an example of one of the Civil War Sharps New Model Carbines that were converted post Civil War to fire the .50-70 G
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,600.00 - 2,500.00
Sold to floor for 2,250.00
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3118 -
Scarce Navy Contract Sharps New Model 1859 Percussion Carbine
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $1800 - 2750 The Navy purchased a small quantity of Sharps New Model 1859 carbines. The major characteristic of these carbines was that t
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 1,800.00 - 2,750.00
Sold to floor for 4,000.00
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3119 -
Sharps New Model Carbine Metallic Cartridge Conversion
Rock Island Auction Company
Estimate: $2000 - 3000 This is an example of one of the Civil War Sharps New Model Carbines that were converted post Civil War to fire the .50-70 G
Bidding Has Concluded
Estimate : 2,000.00 - 3,000.00
Sold to floor for 2,250.00
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