Deringer rifle

[dannybb55]

Here is an interesting Deringer link www.thayeramericana.com/catagory.php?cat_id=1.
 it is a1814 era with an oct to round barrel.
   Danny

[J.D.]

The link doesn't work for me.

[JTR]

try this one;

http://www.thayeramericana.com/category.php?cat_id=1&arch=yes

[TPH]

The seller makes some interesting claims....

[The other DWS]

Interestingly they start out practically shouting, "the ONLY survivor"  but farther down they start hedging with  "only known" in smaller print.    interesting piece, looks to be in amazing shape,  wonder what the provenance documentation on that specific item is?

[Dphariss]

Interestingly they start out practically shouting, "the ONLY survivor"  but farther down they start hedging with  "only known" in smaller print.    interesting piece, looks to be in amazing shape,  wonder what the provenance documentation on that specific item is?

Hey they are salesmen after all so whats a little hype? 

One of my favorite phrases  in describing some artifact is "recently surfaced"
Its likely real but from this distance it tough to tell.
Like Reagan said; "trust but verify".
Dan

[The other DWS]

"truth in advertising=oxymoron"

I suppose that stuff like that shows up in old Eastern family estate collections.
 Here in the Midwest I get the Rock Island Auction stuff and some of the estate collections they handle are truly amazing. 
I've seen some collections in smalltown local museums that were put together by local or regional industrialists around the turn of the previous century that were really eclectic.  Sadly their standards of documentation represent more wish than fact.  on the good side outright high quality forgery was less common then, you'd be more likely to see an early percussion with George Washington's name on it. 
A LOT of really strange stuff done in the wake of the 1876 Centennial uproar.