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Lot 523: Colt Model 1849 Pocket Revolver, 4″ Barrel, 1853

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Colt Model 1849 Pocket Percussion Revolver, .31 caliber, serial number 81665, all visible serial numbers matching, including cylinder with the engraved stage coach scene. Top of the barrel is marked with two line stamp “Address Sam L Colt New-York City”; left side of the frame with “Colts Patent”. Walnut stocks, octagonal barrel, brass trigger guard […]

Lot 522: 1839 Springfield Model 1816 Musket w/ Bayonet

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US Springfield Model 1816 musket converted to percussion, with bayonet. Lock plate with “Springfield” and 1839 date. Smoothbore .69 caliber, metal ramrod, dark brown patina. Butt plate stamped “US” as well as front of trigger guard. Fitted with bayonet, marked with US stamps. Barrel: 42 in. L; Musket: 58 3/4 in; with bayonet: 76 1/2 in. […]

Lot 521: British Pattern 1796 Officer’s Dress Sword, Thomas Read & Co., Dublin

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A custom 1796 Infantry officer’s dress sword, sold at Read & Co., Dublin, Ireland. Custom made “hybrid” sword, with regulation British Pattern 1796 hilt and pommel, but with an earlier style double-edged, symmetrical blade, etched with “For My Country et King” motto and a personal family crest of three diagonal bands; Gilt brass hilt, not […]

Lot 519: 1817 Full Stock Black Powder Rifle w/ John Bull Barrel

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Black Powder rifle with 1817 John Bull made barrel, 50 cal. Marked on a silver lozenge inlaid into top barrel flat “John Bull, Tennessee, for Reuben Pickett 1817”; 39 3/4 in. octagonal barrel with dovetailed brass blade front sight, V-notch rear sight. Restocked mid-19th Century, and fitted with percussion lock with mark of Joseph Golcher, w/ double […]

Lot 520: Ketland Flintlock Full Stock Long Rifle

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Full stock flintlock muzzle-loading rifle, lockplate marked “W. Ketland & Co”, top of barrel marked “D. Wright” (presumably owner); 45 1/4 in. round barrel, 62 cal.; full hardwood stock with darkened “tiger stripe” finish; hardwood ramrod; brass sideplate, trigger guard, butt plate with engraved dentil design; brass fore-end cap, ramrod handle, thimble and 3 guides. Rounded […]

Lot 517: 2 Geological Maps: Landforms of the US c. 1939 & Shawneetown IL c. 1928

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1st Item: Erwin Raisz (1893-1968) MAP OF THE LANDFORMS OF THE UNITED STATES, with additional text; “to accompany Atwood’s ‘Physiographic Provinces of North America’ / Prepared at the Institute of Geographical Exploration / Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.” 1939. Signed in pen upper right corner “E.E. Rehn” (a petroleum geologist). Housed in a newer metal frame […]

Lot 518: Percussion Long Rifle from Williamson Co., TN; Kirkman & Ellis, Nashville

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Percussion long rifle owned by Obediah Wade Hill (1824-1893) of Williamson County, TN. Heavy, octagonal 44 1/4 in. barrel, 30 cal. Lockplate is marked “Kirkman & Ellis Nashville Tenn” with game bird design behind hammer; set trigger. Brass ramrod guides, buttplate, and trigger guard. Stock features several inlaid German silver pieces, including fish, fowl, fox, deer and skunk, as well as […]

Lot 516: 1879 Map of Nashville Tennessee, Wilbur Foster

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MAP OF THE CITY OF NASHVILLE AND VICINITY by Wilbur F. Foster, City Engineer, published by Tavel, Eastman and Howell, Nashville, TN, 1879. Created for the Nashville Board of Health 1879 report. Map of Nashville detailing street names, toll gates, colleges, railways including the Louisville & Nashville & Great Southern, St. Louis & So. Eastern, […]

Lot 515: Rare Geological Map of Tennessee, c. 1856

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James Merrill Safford (American/Tennessee, 1822-1907) GEOLOGICAL MAP OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE, lithograph on wove paper. Published in Safford’s A GEOLOGICAL RECONNAISSANCE OF THE STATE OF TENNESSEE (Nashville: G.C. Torbett & Co., State Printers, 1856) and printed by James F. Wagner of Nashville. Map includes a table of geological formations, an inset of copper mines, […]