Guns International #: 102604456
Seller's Inventory #: 233522

Category - Kentucky Rifles - Antique Rifles - 1500-1850

Category
Kentucky Rifles
Antique Rifles - 1500-1850

STEATHAM Antique Full-Stock .58 Percussion BACK ACTION Long Rifle HOMESTEAD Mid-1800s AMERICAN Kentucky Style Rifle

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STEATHAM Antique Full-Stock .58 Percussion BACK ACTION Long Rifle HOMESTEAD

Mid-1800s AMERICAN Kentucky Style Rifle

Here we present an antique Steatham Full Stock Percussion American Long Rifle, made circa the mid-1800s. Its stout octagonal barrel is in .58 caliber, large enough to take medium to large sized game or to defend the homestead against unwanted aggression. Rifle manufacture in the mid-to-late 19th Century was rapidly changing over from thousands of craftsmen all over the United States and on the Frontier making and selling their wares, to the large factories with standardized assembly lines and modern manufacturing techniques. Many makers’ names of the so-called Kentucky long rifles have been lost over time. This rifle is one such example.

The American Long Rifle, more commonly, but less correctly, known as the ‘Kentucky rifle’, was described by Captain John G. W. Dillin in the dedication to his seminal 1924 book, The Kentucky Rifle:

“From a flat bar of soft iron, hand forged into a gun barrel; laboriously bored and rifled with crude tools; fitted with a stock hewn from a maple tree in the neighboring forest; and supplied with a lock hammered to shape on the anvil; an unknown smith, in a shop long since silent, fashioned a rifle which changed the whole course of world history; made possible the settlement of a continent; and ultimately freed our country of foreign domination. Light in weight; graceful in line; economical in consumption of powder and lead; fatally precise; distinctly American; it sprang into immediate popularity; and for a hundred years was a model often slightly varied but never radically changed.”

The overall condition is good. Original brown patina. Strong action. The hammer head is chipped. The bore is in very good shape for its age. Thin cracks are present on the left side of the forend, and buttstock, and all sit stable. Visible markings are legible.

Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.

Barrel is 36-1/8 inches.

Caliber:  .58 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1200

#233522
 

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Antique: Yes