Project Description

!!!!!SOLD!!!!!  This is a 1/4 scale Kentucky or Pennsylvania rifle made by master miniature maker Stanley Blashak of Pennsylvania.  14 1/8″ long overall with a 10 1/16″ .12 caliber octagon barrel with a browned finish.  The barrel is bored through to the touch hole.  Brass dovetailed front blade sight, browned sporting rear sight.  The lock assembly is also browned.  The rifle has both half & full cock, & both work perfectly with a crisp action.  The barrel is held to the stock by four  wedges with silver escutcheons on each side.  The ramrod thimbles, triggerguard, buttplate, patchbox, patchbox door, nose cap, & sideplate are silver.  The patchbox, patchbox door, and side plate are beautifully hand engraved.  There is a silver oval inlaid into the top of the stock just behind the barrel tang with the engraved letter “B” in script.  The left side of the stock inlaid with a silver oval with an engraved spread winged eagle on the cheekpiece, and what looks like a pair of wings just below.  The patchbox door is spring loaded and released by a small button at the bottom rear of the buttplate.  The stock is beautiful fiddleback maple with extensive high relief carving to the right wrist and left side of the stock.  The ramrod looks to be hickory, and has a silver tip.  Cased in a typical Stanley Blashak walnut hinged top case, French fit, & lined in a dark blue felt.  Accessories include a steel bullet mold with sprue cutter, finished in the white that cast one round ball, an ivory scrimshawed powder horn, an ivory handled screwdriver, and an ivory handled brush.  Excellent near mint condition.  BH-2501.  !!!!!SOLD!!!!!