111B SOLD Steven’s Shotgun Model 1864, 12 Gauge
Damascus barrel of 32”. This is a famous Steven’s action used for many
shotguns and rifles from 1865 to 1890. Many .38, .40 and .45 caliber rifles were made with
this receiver. The barrel is smooth black patina, showing Damascus rings. It has original
breech, and a walnut semi-Schnauble fore-end 8” in
length. The sharply doglegged action is about 5” long and opens from a button on the
left side of the receiver. The trigger guard has a finger rest that was typical on rifles
and has a center-fire hammer. The butt plate is semi-hook and is also common on the
rifles. Both the wood and metal are in very nice condition except that the screw that
holds barrel to receiver has been re-slotted. However, this does not detract from the gun. This gun could be sleeved or re-barreled,
especially in .44-40, .38-40, or .32-20.
$199.99
112B SOLD Dutch .43 Caliber Beaumont Rifle.
This is the nicest Dutch Beaumont Rifle I have ever seen. The 32½” barrel has a
nice brown-blue finish with original military front and rear elevated long-range sights.
All metal is nice brown-blue. It is missing the ramrod but everything else is intact. The stock is a pretty tiger-striped European wood,
probably walnut. It has a nice imprint of a cartouche on the butt and an inspector’s
mark also on the butt. With all original oil
finish and another couple inspector’s marks on the top of the neck. The bore is in
excellent like-new condition. With brass and dies available it would be a joy to shoot.
“It is not only a shooter, it is beautiful!”
$274.99
113B .35 Caliber Kentucky Squirrel gun.
This cap-lock percussion muzzle-loading rifle has a 30¾” octagon barrel with a
typical brass squirrel front sight, and a modified buckhorn rear sight. The barrel is
7/8” diameter across the flats with hex rifling. It has two thimbles holding the
ramrod, and it has a cast German silver nose cap on the end of one stock. The overall length is 47” and the half-stock
is 29½”. The stock appears to be walnut, although it is hard to tell because the
entire gun has a heavy coat of lacquer or varnish on it. The bad new is you will have to
take it off, and the good news is that it has protected everything under it and has never
been refinished. It has a very nice 4½”
patch box made of brass that is inlaid into the right hand side of the butt stock. There
is a brass teardrop escutcheon that the lock screw passes through on the left side. There
is a nice fancy brass trigger guard with a couple of sculpted finger rests on it. There is a brass toe-plate and a very sharply
curved brass butt plate. It appears
that someone riveted the pin that holds the barrel to the stock and put two brass washers
on either side of it. This needs to be
replaced with just a straight pin holding the stock to the barrel. This and one split approximately ¾” long
between the bolster and the middle of the front of the back-action lock plate appear to be
the only two defects, neither of which greatly detract from this otherwise quite nice
squirrel gun. There is also moderate pining
around the barrel next to the bolster, but this is common with most of these rifles. Cleaned-up this will make a very nice shooter or
collection piece. $599.99
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115B Belgian 1842 Musketoon.
The 34¼” barrel is octagon at the breech.
On the right side of the barrel muzzle is a long bayonet lug for a sword
bayonet as well as a front sight. This
musketoon has two barrel-bands held on with spring band keepers. This model is identical to the much more common
French musketoon that it is an exact copy of, and may even have been made in France for
Belgium.
The .73 caliber barrel is smooth bore and it does not have any type of rear sight. It
appears that the breech-plug has been turned out one turn and the stock has been shattered
in the rear of the barrel. There are two long pieces approximately 2½” and 3”
long missing from the right side of the breech-plug and the top of the lock. This gun has
a typical French back-action, extremely robust, lock and hammer, and the percussion nipple
is inset into a bolster that goes from the side to the top of the barrel. It also has a typical trigger guard with two
grasping projections behind the rear of the trigger guard.
It appears that the stock has had very little use, but it looks weathered
and with out any finish, but not sanded or redone. The metal is a very black, relatively
smooth patina. This gun would be well-worth
restoring, as it is a extremely historical weapon, and if you did all the woodwork
necessary on this one it would turn it into a very desirable weapon. However, you could
graft the butt-stock off of the other Belgian musket I have and easily make this a
showpiece. Be sure to read about the other Belgian musket I have.
This musket alone: $499.99
Purchased together with #123B:
$599.99 total
116B #5 Jungle Carbine, .303 British Caliber
This #5 Jungle Carbine was made by Santa Fe Golden State Arms Corp., Pasadena California
in the mid-‘50’s out of the #1 Mark-3 Enfield Rifles. This famous conversion is
quite rare and very collectible now. All parts of the #5 Carbine were replicated at that
time using all surplus #5 parts. Only the
fore stock and the butt stock were original, and these were re-contoured to the #5
profile. Buy a piece of history, and you also get to shoot it. All metal is in good to very good condition, and
it has a good to very good bore which is very shoot-able.
This would make a fine addition to any modern-military collection $199.99
117B SOLD Dutch Beaumont Rifle, .43 Beaumont Caliber.
This rifle has a 25½” long barrel, and is a conversion to a magazine-fed
repeating rifle that is obviously bolt-action. It has one barrel-band that is 9½”
from the end of the barrel, with a band spring holding it on. There is a deep
inspector’s mark in the butt of the stock with an 1886 date. It has a front sling swivel, but the rear sling
swivel is missing. The barreled action has silvery patina on it, and the rear military
sight has been replaced with a civilian buckhorn sight that is missing he elevator. There is a year 1885 stamped in the barrel and
serial #2582. There is a slight crack approximately 1” long in the wood in the middle
of the magazine. The stock is in nice condition with a heavy oil finish. Since it has a
good bore, it would be a delight to shoot now that you can get brass and dies for it.
$99.99
118B SOLD 6.5 Japanese Rifle
This rifle has a 31” barrel with typical Japanese military sights. Serial #96027.
The Chrysanthemum is ground off, but writing is still visible on the Action. The bore is
excellent. All metal has 100% bluing except for the butt plate, which is relatively shiny.
The wood is in 99% new condition with a light tung oil finish. This is one of the
prettiest early 6.5 Japanese rifles that I have ever seen. This will make an excellent
addition to any collection, and would probably make and excellent shooter as well. It even still has the original cleaning rod. This
rifle is all original, and they don’t come any better than this. At $234.99 this is a
steal! $234.99