Chris  Have sent you 2 PM's  Bob

slumlord44 wrote on Feb 13^th, 2010 at 11:24pm:


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The catalog should be available on March 5th, and complete descriptions of the first 400 or so items should be on the web site around that time.

The top lot may be the trapdoor carbine that was probably captured by the Sioux at Little Bighorn.  The 1909 Colt serial #2 will also go high.  

The Stevens-Pope 54?  If it hasn't been refinished, I doubt that it would go for less than $10,000.  The folks at Amoskeag will call a spade a spade-- if they think it has been refinished, they will say so.
Doug

Leland Schlegel had a reputation as a premier collector. His interests were muzzleloaders and single shots. At his death he may have had the most extensive collection of George Schalck guns and memorabilia in the country. He had a reputation for the finest of whatever he collected. For anybody who is near or passes through Louisville it is worth a stop to see the Schlegel display at the Frazier Museum. There is something about an entire case of Schalck rifles that takes ones breath away. For those of you that can’t there is an article in the next Journal on the opening of the display and the rifles that Schlegel that donated to the museum. For what its worth I thought that the Hepburn “A” grade was the highlight of the auction also the Ballard “A1” midrange. For a lot of collectors these rifles, unaltered and like they left the factory, are more desirable than rifles that have been altered, even by the likes of Harry Pope. 

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