10/25/2011 - Historic Firearms & Historic Militaria

 
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    Lot #1
    12.5" length; engrailed edge; throat with three raised rings, then flats, and two more raised rings before ending with a smooth spout. Engraving on this horn is of the highest quality with initials
    Price Realized: $9,200.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #2
    14.75" length. Engraved by a private soldier with images of objects of concern to him including three quaint little mermaids holding mirrors, a scale (justice), two serpents (devils), each with forked ...
    Price Realized: $5,750.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #3
    15" length, with two raised rings, smooth throat and spout. Lob with two holes. Wood base. Engravings consist of the British Royal Crest houses, trees, hunters, deer, Indians carrying rifles and tomah ...
    Price Realized: $9,200.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #4
    13" length, with crude raised ring and flats on spout. Original wood plug with wire loop. Dark horn is engraved Ofs Nicholsons Horn [Ma]d at Lake Gorge, [Oct]ober the 24th 1755.

    A fine ...
    Price Realized: $3,450.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #5
    18" length with engrailed edge, smooth throat, raised ring with two engrailed edges; spout has flats. Engraved with ships flying the Union Jack, soldiers, houses, and the royal crest. Engraved withi ...
    Price Realized: $3,450.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #6
    20" length, with engrailed edge, and turned throat with flats on the spout. The throat is very short about 0.75". Engraved name John Goddard and dated 1777. Engraved cobblestone road ...
    Price Realized: $7,475.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #7
    11" length, engraved with the outline of Albany, New York, trees and flowers. Engraved in three lines Levi Pearce/ 14 Regt Albany Militia/1778.

    Levi Pearce is listed on the roster of t ...
    Price Realized: $1,150.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #9
    A fine 7" horn with a scrimshaw scene of The Wasp and the Frolic, 1812 signed J.L. Joner 1826, unknown. A rare naval horn commemorating the epic fight between the American and British s ...
    Price Realized: $345.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #10
    11" length, with wonderfully engraved panels of a deity watching over a house. The other two panels have vining foliage and birds.
    Price Realized: $1,150.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #11
    12" length, engraved with ships, trees, birds and initials DMJ. Wood base with brass tacks.
    Price Realized: $345.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #12
    13" length, horn fully engraved with animals, trees, birds, hunter on horseback and a hunter with rifle on foot. Also engraved with the initials E x S and dated 1827. Has an engrailed ...
    Price Realized: $488.75 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #13
    19.5" length. Turned spout with a small piece of sheet brass around the last quarter inch of the spout. Wood base with silver plaque engraved, Made by Walter E. Wilcox, Great Salt Lake City Feby 1 ...
    Price Realized: $1,380.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #14
    12" length, carved "fish mouth" with raised ring. Engravings of hunter with drawn bow, deer, eagle with shield and banner with E. Pluribus Unum. Initials WRJ are engraved in the horn. W ...
    Price Realized: $9,775.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #15
    8.75" length, wood base, raised ring, engravings of a boy holding a rifle with a stringer of fish, deer with antlers, E. Pluribus Unum and patriotic eagle at the top of the horn, a lady in a ho ...
    Price Realized: $2,530.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #16
    Profile of a wounded horse with a cannon in the foreground. Two holes for hanging this item. Signed on bottom right J.Q.A. Ward 6lbs, 17.5" x 13".
    Price Realized: $2,070.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #17
    .79 caliber, 52" barrel. Thick barrel with flared muzzle made to shoot a musket ball as well as shot. Long oval blade sight. Two faint (possibly Dutch) proof marks are obscured under old patina. Dutch ...
    Price Realized: $0.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #18
    .69 caliber, 44.5" barrel. Lock, stock and barrels all bear original Charleville marks: the lock in full, the left buttstock has the Charleville 'D', and the breech is stamped D74 (i.e Charlevi ...
    Price Realized: $1,840.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #19
    .69 caliber, 44.5" barrel. Ramrod and the side lock bolt have been replaced. This firearm is distinguished from its predecessors by a presence of a spring that retains the rear band.

    These mus ...
    Price Realized: $2,300.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #20
    .75 caliber, 44.5" barrel. Lockplate is engraved Maubeuge, which was one of the three French armories along with Charleville. Faint crown proof mark on breech of the barrel. Breech with sight g ...
    Price Realized: $4,025.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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    Lot #21
    ca late 18th century. .63 caliber, 42" round-to-octagonal barrel. The octagonal part of the barrel has ornate scrolling with traces of gold leaf. Lockplate and hammer with scrollwork as well. The unde ...
    Price Realized: $2,645.00 (incl. Buyer's Premium)
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