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VERY NICE FLINTLOCK DICKERT & GILL LANCASTER RIFLE.

Currency:USD Category:Antiques / Firearms & Armory Start Price:3,500.00 USD Estimated At:7,000.00 - 10,000.00 USD
VERY NICE FLINTLOCK DICKERT & GILL LANCASTER RIFLE.
NSN. Cal. .52 rifled. This rifle has a 43" full oct bbl signed “J. Dickert & Gill”. Jacob Dickert and Benjamin Gill are listed as Lancaster gunsmiths in 1800. Gill died in 1786 and the partnership was legally dissolved in 1800. Flint lock is marked “Nock Warranted”. Rifle has an attractive four piece engraved patch box. Curly maple stock is checkered at the wrist and has three silver inlays plus one oval silver wrist inlay which is missing. Rifle has a flat brass Lancaster style side plate and a football shaped comb inlay that appears to have been stamped with the owners’ name at one time, now obliterated. PROVENANCE: Collection of Woody Frey. CONDITION: Very good. An 8" crack in the stock has been repaired on the left hand side at the muzzle, otherwise the rifle is in very good used condition throughout. 4-48484 RG2