!!!!!SOLD!!!!! Art Holly 1/3 Scale Kentucky Flintlock Rifle !!!!!SOLD!!!!!

!!!!!SOLD!!!!!  This is a 1/3 scale flintlock Kentucky rifle by master miniature maker Art Holly. 21 1/16″ long overall with a 15″ part octagon part round rifled barrel of .22 caliber. The barrel is browned, and bored through to the touch hole. The lockplate, hammer, pan, & frizzen are case hardened in colors. Fire blue frizzen spring. The lock lightly engraved and marked in script capitol letters what looks to be LAH. The hammer with both half and full cock, with a very light crisp trigger pull. Nice high quality engraved brass furniture. Engraved manually opened brass patchbox marked 1787. The top of the barrel signed A. Holly. Nice silver wire inlays into the stock on both sides of the forearm just ahead of the lock and on both sides of the buttstock. The barrel held in place with four pins, each of which had an engraved brass escutcheon on both sides. The brass nosecap is swelled toward the muzzle giving the appearance of a swamped barrel. The rear sight is fire blued and dovetailed in place. The front sight is brass and is fixed. There is a brass band inlaid into the rear of the barrel near the tang. The stock is a beautiful highly figured fiddleback maple with moderate carving of excellent quality, and a raised cheekpiece on the left side. There is a brass inlay in the cheekpiece with a silver flower inlay inside it, which has an abalone center. Three ramrod thimbles. Hickory ramrod with brass tip. A pretty rifle with great lines by a great highly collected maker. Art Holly miniature rifles are very seldom offered for sale.  Stock # TS-1.  !!!!!SOLD!!!!!