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2024 Winter Fine Art, Antiques & Jewelry (Day 1)

Sat, Jan 27, 2024 09:00AM EST
Lot 527

Combination "Mule Ear" Percussion Rifle/Shotgun, C. Brockway Jr. PA.; Walter Cline Collection

Estimate: $600 - $700

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"Mule Ear" (or side slapper) combination over/under rifle/shotgun marked "C. Brockway Jr" on top of barrels, walnut stock with brass butt plate and scrolling trigger guard, center rib equipped on each side with ramrod thimbles tube; 28 gauge and .41 caliber. Overall 41" L; barrels 25 1/2" L. Ca. Mid 19th Century.

Note: Chauncey Brockway Jr. (1823-1910) of Brockport, PA, was a gunsmith before and after his service in the Civil War, in the 172d Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteers Infantry.

Note: Walter Matson Cline (1873-1941) was a Chattanooga, TN, photographer and preeminent historian and collector of muzzle loading firearms. His book "the Muzzle-Loading Rifle Then and Now" became the authority on the history of black powder firearms when it was published in 1942, shortly after his death. The National Muzzle Loading Rifle Association, of which Cline was an early member, is headquartered in Friendship, IN, and is home to the Walter Cline shooting range. As this is an antique black powder firearm, no FFL is necessary.

Condition

Both hammers cock and release with trigger, bore clean; rods absent, crack to stock at wrist, cleaned.

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By descent from the estate of Walter M. Cline, Chattanooga, Tennessee.