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Winning Bid US $2940 First bid $2500 Quantity 1 # of bids 4 Time left Auction has ended   Started 2025-05-07 00:00:00 Ended 2025-11-21 22:35:25

RARE!!, Remington-Keene Frontier carbine, US interior Dept. marked, Fort Totten North Dekota Indian Police gun. Mike Carrick & Norm Flayderman collection. Cal: .45-70, MFG: 1880, S/N: 451, Bolt action repeating rifle, 24 1/2'' barrel.

HISTORY: Remington would send a prototype of the Keene rifle to the Army for testing in the 1878 magazine rifle tests. It would be rejected as the army favored the Winchester Hotchkiss design. Remington would turn & offer it to the Navy where they would order 250 rifles, for comparing to their 2500 Winchester Hotchkiss rifles & 300 M1855 Remington-Lee rifles. in July of 1880, the US department of the Interior bought 600 Remington-Keene Frontier model carbines to arm the Indian Police on the reservations. Some would also be produced for civilian sales. This rifle served as a Indian police gun at the Fort Totten Indian Reservation, now Sprit lake Nation Reservation, in North Dakota. Included with the rifle is a handwritten note from Doctor William A. Tompkins stating that his grandpa, Frank Tompkins, bought two guns from the Army at fort at Totten in the 1880s-90s, this rifle being one. The rifle stayed in the family until William sold the rifle to Keith Kristjanson of Kristys, Inc. Grand Forks, ND. Keith would hang onto the rifle until 1994, when he sold it to Norm Flayderman, well known historian & the author of the famous Flayderman guide. Then in 2001 one, Mike Carrick, the Famous gun historian, known for his Lewis & Clark weapons collection, author of articles for the Gun Digest Reloaders Manual, The Gun Report Magazine, Muzzle Blasts Magazine & other publications. Included is a hand written letter from Norm Flayderman to Mike Carrick talking about the gun, when he bought it, & where it came from. The gun staid him Mike Carricks collection until now. A very rare & interesting gun with long & unique history. A Rare opportunity to own a gun that came from both Norm Flayderman, & Mike Carrick collections. As stated above, this rifle comes with handwritten letters & documents about the rifle, its history & confirming dates.

CONDITION: The straight wrist walnut stock is very good with some minor nicks, dings, scuffs & scratches. The left side of the wrist has a faded inspectors cartouche. There is a 2'' hairline crack on the right of the wrist, emanating from the screw escutcheon. The original blued metal finish rates 15% on the barrel with most of the barrel worn gray & starting to tone brown. The magazine tube rates 35%, again with spots of wear showing gray & starting to tone brown. The blued finish on the receiver rates 25% with more spots of wear showing gray & toning brown. Other metal parts have finish wear, speckling of brown patina & roughness. The left side of the receiver is marked ''U.S.I.D. 160''. This is the US dept. of the interior stamp & the rifle number from that batch stamp. He left side of the receiver band is marked ''H.N.'', this is the inspector stamp for Henry Nettleton. The top of the receiver band is marked with an arrow, ''P,'' & ''W.W.K.''. the ''W.W.K.'' stamp is the initials for US navy inspector Lt. William W. Kimball. the left rear of the barrel has another ''H.K.'' stamp. The top of the barrel, under the rear barrel band is stamped with a mix HP mark where the H shares the staff of the P as the left leg of the H. the rear of the bolt is marked with the Remington address with patent dates, ending in ''July 31, 1877''. The S/N ''451'' is stamped on the inside of the trigger guard tang. The bore is good. Its bright & shiny with proud rifling, but has roughness & a couple spots of light pitting. The barrel holds a small barleycorn front sight with a ladder U-notch rear sight marked 1 to 10. The stock carries a steel buttplate, toned dark with spots of cleaned rust/light pitting. The rifle has both bottom sling loops. Antique, No FFL Req - Value: 5000 to 10000

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RARE!!, Remington-Keene Frontier carbine, US interior Dept. mark... Item # 4429 This auction is over. No new bids can be placed. Price: US $2940

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