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General discussion => Antique Gun Collecting => Topic started by: WESTbury on April 11, 2023, 01:43:37 AM

Title: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
Post by: WESTbury on April 11, 2023, 01:43:37 AM

If anyone has a few spare bucks after filling their gas tank this week. :o
https://www.rockislandauction.com/detail/88/3210/george-eister-attributed-flintlock-american-long-rifle

Title: Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
Post by: Top Jaw on April 12, 2023, 05:52:16 PM

Is this the gun Louie Parker owned (from his estate)?

Title: Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
Post by: mr. no gold on April 12, 2023, 08:00:38 PM

Probably not. Morphy Auctions handling Louie Parker's collection. Comes up in August I believe. Good luck chasing it!
Dick

Title: Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
Post by: Yazel.xring on April 12, 2023, 08:20:55 PM

Had a gander at this one this week, a real beauty.

Title: Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
Post by: mr. no gold on April 12, 2023, 09:15:40 PM

I'm with you YX. No such thing as a bad Eister!
Dick

Title: Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
Post by: Buck on April 13, 2023, 01:33:45 PM

Top Jaw,

It is not the same Eister, there's a picture of that rifle in the library here. I was at his house a month before he passed and spent the afternoon with him in his gun room. Louie's approval was the bench mark for me in rifle collecting. 

Buck

Title: Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
Post by: dadybear1 on April 13, 2023, 01:40:22 PM

BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF HISTORY

Title: Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
Post by: J. Talbert on April 16, 2023, 06:03:01 AM

I’m a big fan of Eister and this is certainly a fine one, but the engraving and the screw count on the auction gun do not match the gun pictured on the site from “Thoughts on the Kentucky…”

Doesn’t mean I wouldn’t love to have just the same. ;)

Jeff

Title: Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
Post by: Tanselman on April 16, 2023, 07:07:46 AM

I think the write-up said the auction gun was similar to the one in Kindig, not the same one.

Shelby Gallien

Title: Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
Post by: J. Talbert on April 16, 2023, 08:48:08 AM

Thanks Shelby,
I should have scrolled down further.

Jeff