1865 Spencer Rifle

Size: Approx. 12.5" x 37.5"
SR111029

$395

The 1865 Spencer Rifle 56-50

This woodburning of an 1865 Spencer Repeating Rifle has some old west history that is loaded with provinance.

Artist Dan Allnutt has applied the ancient genre of woodburning to artifact wood from the below 1860s-era homestead cabin. Located on a working ranch in the Arkansas River Valley of the Colorado Rockies, the old place is but a stone’s throw away from the “new” ranch house (built in the 1880s), where Dan and brother Frank make their home.

Art’s frame measures 12.5” h by 37.5” w, and has Burgundy Suede and Blue-Stained Pine. The Spencer 56-50 shell casing was found with a metal detector on the back of the ranch.

Though Dan and Frank are in their ‘70s and “retired,” they lend a hand to the cattle and hay operations. And, of course, they make time for their art.