What is it?

[fraserdw]

Was leaning against a tree in my woods.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DWqojjHXwHtg_dkqWc9JN3-UWhKBYzUu/view?usp=drivesdk

2 and half feet long with hex shaped breed. Chamber opening is in front of breech. The barrel is very skinny and chromed.

 

[trebor2880]

Access denied.

 

[fraserdw]

Sorry got no other way of sharing.

 

[fraserdw]

Changed access try now.

 

[Comrade Ogilvy]

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[tiriaq]

Air rifle.

 

[RabidM4U5]

Home-made pressure washer or bead-blaster

 

[a j cave]

Quakenbush?

 

[slowfire]

I would go with a j.

 

[fraserdw]

Yes Quakenbush. Fo

und it.

 

[grauhanen]

It certainly looks like a Quackenbush Model 1 or a variant of it. As tiriaq offers, it is an air rifle. Push barrel cocking, the .21 cal. smoothbore used round shot, felted slugs, or darts which were put in the loading port just forward of the octagonal area. These were first made beginning in the late 1870's and was nickel plated.

 

[tiriaq]

Yes Quakenbush. Fo

und it.

Someone should take the butt off, turn it over, and put it back on.

If you have some older lobster/nutcrackers, have a look to see if they are marked QHC. Quackenbush Hardware Company.