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THBRaised Carved Kentucky Rifle By T. Allison
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Cincinnati , OH 45232
United States
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LiveOct 30, 2018
Cowan's is honored to present the Magnificent Sword Collection of William Koch in its two-day firearms, militaria, and American history auction, with a focus on the Civil War. Cowan's Auctions dawnie@cowans.com
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Raised Carved Kentucky Rifle By T. Allison
.40 caliber, 38.5" wedge retained octagonal barrel, no S/N. Browned finish, brass furniture, faux finished maple stock. Flat, stepped lock with fenced iron pan and flat beveled swan neck cock, marked LONDON/WARRANTED. Lock likely a replacement. Barrel appears to be original flint with a well executed, tapered and angled touchhole. Barrel with silver plate set in top flat, signed in script T Allison . Double set triggers. Four-piece plain openwork brass patchbox, lightly engraved two-screw side plate, plain brass buttplate and toe plate. Rifle is profusely decorated with German silver inlays, including a delicately engraved oval cheek piece inlay depicting a Federal-style eagle with a snake in its beak, a large engraved oval escutcheon in the butt with the initials AJC , surrounded by light Rococo carving, and numerous lightly engraved decorative inlays along the forend, at the wrist, align the comb and around the tang. Stock with a delicate Roman-nosed profile, raised carved cheek rest, incised toe line and simple carved moldings along forend. 1.9" brass nose cap, two faceted brass thimbles and a brass entry pipe, wood ramrod with brass reinforced tip. Thomas Allison worked in Pennsylvania ca 1810-1836, initially in Pittsburgh (1810-1816) and then New Sweickley (1816-1836).(Sellers)
Good. Metal with a mottled and oxidized brownish gray patina with some lightly scattered pitting. Mechanically functional, 7-groove bore heavily oxidized and moderately pitted. Most of the brass with an untouched patina, German silver moderately tarnished. Patchbox lid crudely repaired. Side plate does not fit the stock well. Stock with numerous bumps, dings, marks and mars with substantial repairs to the forend, including added wood and repaired cracks.Condition
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