GUN FALL 2015
The live portion of this session begins on Monday, October 5, 2015.
COLT MODEL 1878 DOUBLE BARREL DAMASCUS HAMMER SHOTGUN.COLT1878741610 GACal: 10 GA Field grade shotgun with special order 31" Damascus bbls that have tapered concave rib, single brass bead marked with makers name & address. Mounted with very nicely figured, straight grain American walnut with checkered, black insert, Schnable tip, splinter forearm and rnd knob buttstock with smooth steel buttplate. Lockplates, hammers & receiver have simple line borders, this being almost the plainest grade. These plain grade shotguns are almost never found with orig finish having been the "working man''s" tool, they usually saw very hard service. Colt produced about 23,000 of these high quality shotguns in three gauges during the period 1878-1889 until competition from cheap European imports forced them to stop production. Very few survived today and of those, incredibly few retain any orig finish. CONDITION: Extremely fine+, all matching (buttstock not checked for matching number). Overall retains about 99% orig finish with strong brown Damascus pattern, brilliant case colors & bright orig wood finish with only a couple of very minor handling & storage nicks. Trigger guard & buttplate also retain 98-99% bright fire blue. Mechanics are crisp. Bright shiny bores, appears to be new & unfired. 48568-12 JR (6,500-9,500)