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New York Half-Stock Percussion Rifle by Jeremiah Voorhees
Estimate: $800-$1,200
Sold
$400
Timed Auction
Arms, Armor and Militaria Online
Location
Cincinnati
Description

New York Half-Stock Percussion Rifle by Jeremiah Voorhees

.40 caliber. 27.75" wedge-retained octagonal barrel. NSN. No finish, brass furniture, pewter nose cap, hardwood stock with crescent buttplate. Single shot percussion muzzleloading rifle. Unmarked single-screw commercial percussion lock is lightly engraved, drum bolster in barrel. Top of breech with the weak initials JV stamped. Rifle equipped with a dovetailed notch rear sight, small brass blade front sight, brass scroll shaped triggerguard and buttplate. A replacement wooden ramrod is secured by two plain thimbles.

Jeremiah Voorhees (1810-1878) worked as a gunsmith and gunmaker in Avoca (Steuben County), NY circa 1848-1852 and in Wellsville, NY 1852-1874. {ANTIQUE}

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Condition
Good. Bore moderately oxidized with decent six groove rifling with the lands about twice as wide as the grooves. Metal moderately oxidized with a mottled brown over gray patina and some scattered pitting, mostly around the breech area. Mechanically functional lock. Stock with expected wear, showing scattered bumps, dings and mars and some minor loss around the rear edge of the mortise.
Quantity
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