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General discussion => Antique Gun Collecting => Topic started by: welldigger45 on June 28, 2017, 04:29:20 PM
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Inherited this this past weekend and trying to find out a little more about the builder. Side plate R. Dunlap Jr Pittsburgh PA.
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Welldigger,
It looks like you inherited a nice rifle but chances are better than not that Dunlap was not the builder. Gun makers typically signed their work on the top flat of the barrel. Dunlap was obviously the lock maker out of the Pittsburgh area. Perhaps someone will recognize a distinguishing feature on the rifle.
Mark
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Thanks Mark I uploaded a couple more pics, If the gunmaker initialed the barrel than I think the maker would be D *M
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This gun looks like it might be a late Bedford, or Somerset, county Pennsylvania longrifle. I don't recognize the initials on the barrel. As stated the signature on the lockplate are those of the lockmaker.
Hungry Horse
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Perhaps David Milliron of Putneyville PA
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Pulled my photos and there are a lot of elements including the signature that make me say with 90% certainty that it
was David Milliron's work.
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Thank you Shreck, my great uncle was from the exact area you are talking about, I still have family out there and believe it or not my wife's sister married a L. Schrecengost from dayton pa and my Mom went to her senior prom with a C. Schrecengost in Dayton PA. But getting back to the rifle any idea what the other letters on the barrel mean I can only make out OLDS but there is at least one other letter there just can't make it out
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Well Heck, we're practically related. The barrel marks don't ring any bells. I've not seen many Milliron rifles, but a few. I think I posted pictures of another one on this
forum. Apparently the prom didn't go that well or you might have ended up a cousin :)