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Circa 1800 ANTIQUE Full-Stock Pennsylvania Smoothbore LONG RIFLE 56 Caliber Originally Flintlock with Maple Stock
Guns International #: 101454573 Seller's Inventory #: 20332
Category: Kentucky Rifles - Antique Rifles - Percussion
Seller's Information
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Seller: AncestryGunsLLC
Company: Ancestry Guns LLC
Member Since: 11/3/16
State: Missouri
Zip: 65203
Country: United States
Phone: (314) 707-7373
International Phone: 314-707-7373
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Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
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Description:
Circa 1800 ANTIQUE Full-Stock Pennsylvania Smoothbore LONG RIFLE 56 Caliber
Originally Flintlock with Maple Stock
Here we present an antique Pennsylvania Smoothbore Long Rifle, the late-18th or early-19th Centuries. Formerly flintlock, this musket was updated to the percussion firing system at some point around the 1840s. Small arms manufacture in the mid-to-late 19th Century was rapidly changing over from thousands of craftsman all over the United States and on the Frontier making and selling their wares, to the large factories with standardized assembly lines and modern manufacturing techniques. Many makers’ names of the so-called Kentucky long rifles have been lost over time. This rifle is one such example.
The American Longrifle, more commonly, but less correctly, known as the ‘Kentucky rifle’, was described by Captain John G. W. Dillin in the dedication to his seminal 1924 book, The Kentucky Rifle:
“From a flat bar of soft iron, hand forged into a gun barrel; laboriously bored and rifled with crude tools; fitted with a stock hewn from a maple tree in the neighboring forest; and supplied with a lock hammered to shape on the anvil; an unknown smith, in a shop long since silent, fashioned a rifle which changed the whole course of world history; made possible the settlement of a continent; and ultimately freed our country of foreign domination. Light in weight; graceful in line; economical in consumption of powder and lead; fatally precise; distinctly American; it sprang into immediate popularity; and for a hundred years was a model often slightly varied but never radically changed.”
The overall condition is good. This one has been nickel-plated on the barrel (a practice done with retired guns more for aesthetic than practical purposes). Fantastic striped grain maple stock. Brass patchbox. The action functions. The bore is smooth and in good condition. The stock has a stable crack at the toe. This is a great piece of American history!
Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.
Barrel is 37 inches.
Caliber: .56
Overall condition as seen in photos.
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$1250
#20332
SOLD
Antique: Yes