May 23rd 2015 Premier Firearms Sale
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 5/22/2015
Unusual gun. Single barrel muzzle loading rifle. Features two hammers and two nipples. No markings on stock. All metal is silver patina with salt and pepper pitting throughout. Features a 41" barrel, three bands, military style rear sight, and single trigger. Wood is very good. Bore is very good with some rifling. .60 caliber. Left hammer does not come all the way down. Made by J.P. Lindsay, New York. Total quantity made was roughly 1000 between 1863-1864. Superposed load two charges in the single barrel, one on top of the other, fired separately using double hammers and a single trigger. This gun is 56" overall with a 41-1/8" round barrel and semi-octagonal breech. There are two nipples, two hammers and a single two stage trigger. There are three barrel bands. It has a tulip head swelled ramrod. All metal parts are finished bright. The front sight doubles as a lug for a triangular socket bayonet. The stock is walnut. Although only faintly visible on the pictured weapon, the barrel is marked on the top of the breech, "LINDSAY / PATENT'D. OCT. 9. 1860." in two lines. There is a "U.S." on the butt plate tang. Crack to stock at grip has been repaired long ago but is visible on both sides of wood between breech and trigger.