GENESEO, N.Y. – An Eighteenth Century tiger maple rifle caught a bull’s-eye at Cottone’s May 7-8 sale when it sold for $306,000. The fresh-to-the-market early transitional Jaeger rifle had a 33-inch barrel and lock plate signed “I.I. Behr.” The patch box was inscribed that it was purportedly recovered during the Battle of Monmouth, June 28, 1778, which George Washington famously commanded against the British Army. The Continental Army riflemen often carried rifles like this one when going head-to-head against the British light infantry. The rifle came to sale with an estimate of $3/5,000. It had been in the collection of the Rochester Historical Society since around the turn of the century and was deaccessioned to benefit their collections fund.

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