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THBJohn Daniel Nelson Georgia Percussion Rifle
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Asheville, NC 28802
United States
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, Brunk Auctions has been conducting sales of fine and decorative arts for over 30 years. Auctions are held in our North Carolina sale room but attracts a global audience. Founded by Robert Brunk in 1983, the auctions became well known for their integrity and profes...Read more
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About Auction
LiveDec 5, 2024
Featuring items from the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia: to include early Southern pottery with Edgefield, Georgia and Alabama examples as well as a Lanier Meaders face jug; Southern furniture to include four sugar chests, Kentucky sideboard, early long guns with Southern examples, Chinese export to include three Charles Manigault examples, fine art work by Will Henry Stevens, Carl Kraft and Alice R. Huger Smith and others, silver to include Tiffany and aesthetic movement examples Brunk Auctions support@brunkauctions.com
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Ball Ground, Cherokee County, G.A., 1871, squirrel rifle, half stock, .38 caliber. 42-3/4 in. octagonal barrel engraved "J.D. Nelson 1871" on top, long two screw barrel tang, dovetail brass blade front sight, v-cut rear sight, engraved lock plate, tear drop shaped brass side plate, iron trigger guard, butt plate, forend cap, ram rod guides and thimble, double set triggers, buttstock with cheek rest, 59-1/2 in. overall
Provenance: From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia
Note: In the catalog description from Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 112, cat. no. 85, Burrison writes, "The maker settled at Nelson, near Ball Ground, after serving as a surgeon in the Confederate Army. His blacksmith and gunshop was supplied with spring water via hand bored wooden pipes."
Illustrated: Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in a Changing South, John Burrison, University of Georgia Press, 2000, pg. 45, description on pg. 112, cat. no. 85.
Exhibited: Previously on Loan at the Atlanta History Center for viewing in the exhibition Shaping Traditions: Folk Arts in the Changing South from 1996 to 2024
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From the Folklife Collection of Southern Pottery Scholar, Author and Professor of English at Georgia State University, Dr. John Burrison, Atlanta, Georgia
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some handling wear, copper plate repairs to stock adjacent to lock plate, patina, oxidation and some dings to metal components, nicks and abrasions to wooden stock, cock and triggers non functioning
