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Help Identifying These 2 Guns

theweighttheweight Member Posts: 13 ✭✭
edited April 2011 in Ask the Experts
Hello,

Can anyone identify either of these?

http://home.comcast.net/~theweight/gun.htm

http://home.comcast.net/~theweight/flint.htm

Thanks in advance

theweight
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  • hrfhrf Member Posts: 857 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Both look like "Frankenguns" to me, with mismatched fore and aft parts:

    Rear half of first one from a cheap Leman percussion trade gun, front half unknown barrel with nipple screwed directly into breech with no bolster. EDIT: On 2nd look at closeup of right side, believe it originally had a bar action lock, replaced with the Leman back action lock with some wood spliced in and original bolster hole in barrel plugged.

    Rear half of 2nd one from a Sharps New Model carbine, front half longer replacement barrel, with added ramrod and thimbles.

    Indian conversions maybe? [;)]
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  • hrfhrf Member Posts: 857 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just noticed these mongrels have been discussed here three times before, once in 2007 and twice in 2008. Nice to see that others agree with my "Frankenguns" assessment!

    http://forums.gunbroker.com/search.asp?mode=DoIt&MEMBER_ID=39493
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I gather the weight keeps hoping someone will say they are very rare and worth a fortune. I don't think the answers are going to change.
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  • theweighttheweight Member Posts: 13 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    hrf - thanks for finding those links!!! I remember asking several years ago for a friend but wasn't sure it was this site. I could not find anything in the archives (probably didn't look correctly) and due to several hard drive crashes didn't have the answers saved on my PC anymore.

    Thanks again for finding them and taking the time to reply. I appreciate it.
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