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Nicholas Beyer, Lebanon/Dauphin County Pennsylvania full stock flintlock long rifle, approximately .50 caliber, with tiger maple stock, four-piece engraved patchbox with typical long neck bird terminal, crescent butt plate, trigger guard and side plate, with relief and incised carved stock with scrolls behind barrel tang and flanking cheek rest, the forestock with incised line terminating in a serpentine scroll on either side of the barrel, the lock is stamped
T. Ketland & Co., the barrel inscribed
N + Beyer, with dovetailed brass blade front sight, 44 1/2" octagonal barrel. Provenance: The Collection of Edie & Bruce Smart, Upperville, Virginia.
Condition
Very good to excellent condition, normal handling marks to stock., lock maybe replaced.