"HALF-STOCK PRESENTATION RIFLE. SN NSN. This rifle has a 39-1/2" full oct 42 Cal rifled bbl. The back action lock is marked "H. DERINGER PHILADa". 4-pc highly engraved patch box with five piercings, nicely engraved brass toe plate with bone patch box release button and two bbl wedges surrounded by Deringer-style silver inlays. This rifle is rare in spite of its well-used condition because there are so few Deringer half-stocks that exist and because of its historical significance. The well known Philadelphia gunsmith Henry Deringer is famous for the invention of the single-shot percussion deringer pistol. Henry died in 1868 having produced military guns, under government contract, pocket pistols and Kentucky rifles. He is known to have made very few half-stock rifles. This rifle, although it shows a great deal of hard use, is complete and is unique in that it is inscribed with the name of its owner "Major Isaac Hall". The book History of Greene County, Georgia by Rice and Williams, published in 1961 (book is included with rifle), explains Maj. Isaac R. Hall was a clerk of Superior Court (1821-1830), a justice of the Inferior Court, and a clerk of Inferior Court. "Judge Isaac R. Hall, the clerk of Greene Superior Court for many years, was little more than three feet tall, but no more efficient clerk ever served the county." Maj. Hall was buried in Greensboro Cemetery, with Masonic honors. PROVENANCE: Ex Dick Kennedy, Georgia, Collection. R. Gabel Collection. CONDITION: Complete and orig but shows signs of hard usage. Heavy pitting at breech end of bbl and on lock. 4-31724 RGG26 (3,000-6,000)"
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