**Lefever Arms Company E Grade Sideplate Shotgun

12 Gauge. 32" barrel length. SN: 48882. 2.75" chamber lengths. Full chokes. Blued barrels and small parts with color case hardened frame in a flat-wrist English walnut stock with splinter forend and bordered multipoint checkering mounting Lefever Arms Company monogram hardrubber buttplate. Double barrel side by side hammerless boxlock ejector shotgun with fluid steel barrels, full length matted barrel rib, and twin bead sights. Sideplates display LEFEVER/ARMS CO. markings beside {Hunting dog} vignettes surrounded with edge scroll with Arabesque flourishes. Triggerguard is engraved with a {Duck}, and the trigger plate displays the marking Patented 1872./80. 85. 86. 87. The water tables exhibit an E grade marking with both barrels marked -FLUSSSTAHL-KRUPP, ESSEN. Tops of the barrels marked KRUPP/FLUID STEEL. Buttplate is mounted to an extension, and the toe of the stock displays a German Silver oval plate. Serial numbers match on the barrel flats, water tables, triggerguard, and tang. Twin sideplate screws appear to be replacements.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Property from a Midwest Collection

Condition
Good. Bores are Very Bright. Barrels retain much of their bluing with pinpoint patina and oxidation along the forward barrels. Case colors are strong on the watertables with weakening of the finish to the exterior. Finish is worn to silver on the tang with edgewear overall and some brown patina forming. Buttstock shows some wear to the checkering and signs of refinish, along with some chipping of the finish along the edges of the sideplates. Some residues suggesting wood fill and repair. Some scattered dull spots and weakening of the patterns on the butt. Action locks tightly on face with the lever resting right of center.