Author Topic: Eister Rifle at Rock Island  (Read 1425 times)

Offline WESTbury

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Eister Rifle at Rock Island
« 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
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Offline Top Jaw

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Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
« Reply #1 on: April 12, 2023, 05:52:16 PM »
Is this the gun Louie Parker owned (from his estate)?

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Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
« Reply #2 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!
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Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2023, 08:20:55 PM »
Had a gander at this one this week, a real beauty.
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Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2023, 09:15:40 PM »
I'm with you YX. No such thing as a bad Eister!
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Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
« Reply #5 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. 

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Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2023, 01:40:22 PM »
BEAUTIFUL PIECE OF HISTORY

Offline J. Talbert

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Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
« Reply #7 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. ;)

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Offline Tanselman

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Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
« Reply #8 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.

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Re: Eister Rifle at Rock Island
« Reply #9 on: April 16, 2023, 08:48:08 AM »
Thanks Shelby,
I should have scrolled down further.

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