December 17, 2026 The Estate Of Whitefoord Cole II: Firearms & Militaria
The live portion of this session begins on Thursday, December 17, 2026.
Lot #1317:
(C) HAMILTON NO. 27 .22 RF SINGLE SHOT RIFLE WITH ULTRA SCARCE BOX
First produced in 1907 through 1930 by C.J. Hamilton & Son of Plymouth, Michigan. The barrel is constructed of three layers to include a thin brass or bronze inner liner wrapped with a pot metal layer and finished with an outer sheet metal wrap. The right side lever allows action to open for loading. The guns are nicely blued and feature a thin attached front sight, a wind drift rear, and hardwood stocks. The Hamilton legend is stamped into the left side of the takedown style frame. This example includes the almost impossible to find original cardboard box and hang tag. CONDITION: Excellent. Retains at least 95% plus blue finish displaying nominal handling marks. Stocks are excellent showing only minute impressions. Mechanically sound retaining a strong lightly frosted bore. While they made quite a few of these rifles, they were equally abused by the youth for which they were intended making any high condition gun rare but doubly so with its fragile box and hang tag.
Caliber/Bore
.22 Short and Long