Flintlock, maple full stock, 56” OA, 41” octagonal iron brl smoothbore .52cal. Incised carving, original 2-piece patchbox surrounded by 12 tack heads added later. Nice early surface and Germanic lock. Although this rifle is unsigned, is has stylistic features of Schreyer’s rifles and was very likely made at an early date perhaps as early as 1790. Someone in the period of the rifle decided the gun’s pleasant workmanlike style wasn’t to their taste and they added twelve large brass upholstery tacks around the patchbox. Additions of this type to rifles were often done by Native Americans, and that may be the case here.

Carving worn, forestock restoration. Some dings consistent with age. There is a stabilized crack behind the first ramrod pipe from the rod end punching into it. ANTIQUE.