Lot 55
Reconverted Chief's Grade Flintlock Trade Gun
Sale 2030 - Arms, Armor and Militaria
Oct 23, 2024 10:00AM ET
Live / Cincinnati

Estimate
$1,000 - $2,000
Lot Description
Reconverted Chief's Grade Flintlock Trade Gun
Fur Trade Period

.45 caliber. 38" pinned round barrel. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass furniture, walnut stock. Single shot, reconverted flintlock muzzleloading trade gun. Commercial lock marked with illegible maker's mark and WARRANTED. Barrel with post-1813 Birmingham proofs. Brass furniture includes a lightly engraved open work two-screw side plate, lightly engraved buttplate tang, lightly engraved triggeguard bow with pineapple finials. Forend restored with nose cap and upper pipe replaced. Includes a contemporary steel ramrod.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.
Condition Report

Good as restored. Metal moderately oxidized with a plum brown patina and minute traces of what appears to be old brown. Metal with some pitting, particularly at the breech. Reconverted flint lock functional, bore heavily oxidized, dark, dirty and pitted. Brass with a golden patina. Stock with wear, the forend restored forward of the middle pipe and with numerous bumps, dings and mars.


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