Eister Rifle at Rock Island

[WESTbury]

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

[Top Jaw]

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

[mr. no gold]

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

[Yazel.xring]

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

[mr. no gold]

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

[Buck]

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

[dadybear1]

BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF HISTORY

[J. Talbert]

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

[Tanselman]

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

Shelby Gallien

[J. Talbert]

Thanks Shelby,
I should have scrolled down further.

Jeff