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Category - Kentucky Rifles - Antique Rifles - 1500-1850

Category
Kentucky Rifles
Antique Rifles - 1500-1850

LANCASTER PENNSYLVANIA LONG RIFLE by HENRY LEMAN Antique FULL-STOCK .34 Cal By One of Lancaster, PA’s Most Notable Gunmakers!

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LANCASTER PENNSYLVANIA LONG RIFLE by HENRY LEMAN Antique FULL-STOCK .34 Cal

By One of Lancaster, PA’s Most Notable Gunmakers!

Here we present an antique Henry Leman Full-Stock Percussion Long Rifle, made circa the mid-19th Century in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Henry Eichholz Leman was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, March 8, 1812, and died there March 12, 1887. Henry E. Leman's business career, 1834 to 1887, covered an important transition period in the evolution of fire-arms. Leman started his career making flintlocks. Soon he changed to the muzzle-loading, percussion-cap rifles which made him famous. And he eventually saw the period when the modern cartridge breech-loading guns came into general battlefield use.

Leman was also noted to be very active in firearms trade with the early American Indians. Frank R. Diffenderffer, always a close observer as well as a noted, accurate historian, noted this: "Between 1857 and 1870 I was engaged in trades over the West and Southwest, making trips across the plains from Missouri to Mexico, and also from the Gulf of Mexico into Arizona. During that time it was my fortune to meet many tribes of Indians,—Apaches, Navajos, Comanches, Cheyennes, Kaws and Arapahoes, and most of them carried guns as well as bows and arrows. When occasion offered, I took pains to look at the names of the makers stamped on the weapons. By far the largest number were Leman rifles, and inquiry always revealed the preference of these Indians for the Lancaster-made guns over all others. It was possible to barter with the Indians for almost any of their possessions, but never for a Leman rifle."

This rifle’s octagonal barrel is in .34 caliber, large enough to take small to medium sized game or to defend the homestead against unwanted aggression. Full-length stock. Double set trigger.

The overall condition is good. Strong action. The bore remains in good shape for its age with clear rifling. Solid stock (stable repairs around the lock, small crack on left forearm, stable repair in the toe of the buttstock). Lightly engraved lock. Some faint markings on the top of the barrel can be made out such as “Lancster PA” and “WARRANTED”. A nice piece of Americana!

Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.

Barrel is 37 inches.

Caliber: .34 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1600

#215292
 

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Antique: Yes