ATTRACTIVE GERMAN SILVER MOUNTED FULL STOCK PERCUSSION RIFLE WITH DEFREES LOCK

$1,950.00

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Item Code: 2024-1848

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This is a very good looking hunting rifle with nicely tiger-striped applied graining, mounted with a brass buttplate and the other fittings, both decorative and functional, in German silver. The side lug percussion lock has double set triggers and the lock plate is stamped forward of the hammer near the lower edge J H DEFREES, who at least for a time was at Piqua, Ohio. (Based on another gun with his mark. A quick search shows a father by that name seems to have been a blacksmith who moved there and a son for a time was in the hardware business there.) The mechanism works, but there is no half cock. Both hammer and plate have floral scroll engraving, rubbed on the lock plate but clearly showing a hunting dog chasing two ducks that have taken flight at the rear. The lock is secured by a single screw with teardrop escutcheon on the left. The 34-1/2” barrel is octagonal, with rear buckhorn sight in place and showing a mortice for simple block sight to its rear with a faint maker’s stamp that appears to be “JAS CO…”  The bore is rifled with seven grooves, clean, bright, and roughly .62 caliber.

The stock has some minor dings and scratches, with a small bit of fill on the left butt flat. The only real fault is at the muzzle, where the wood was broken forward from the foremost rectangular escutcheon plate for the barrel pins. The left plate is missing and the right is there but damaged. The nose cap was then moved back slightly to conceal it, exposing the last couple of inches of the muzzle. The front sight, or at least the blade, was likely replaced. The German silver mounts include the ramrod thimbles as well as the barrel pin escutcheons, the hand plate, triggerguard and handrail, patchbox, oval escutcheon on the wrist and on the left buttstock. This is a very attractive rifle- so nice that it would be well worth restoring the tip of the stock.    [sr][ph:L]

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