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General discussion => Antique Gun Collecting => Topic started by: BigSkyRambler on March 14, 2023, 01:40:21 AM
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Got this rifle today and it is really cool. It is a .50 smooth rifle converted from flint to percussion in a novel way. Lock stamoed H. LECHLER. Looks to be a potential shooter, too. Anyone have any information on Lechler?
(https://i.ibb.co/JKVJm21/20230313-161019.jpg) (https://ibb.co/s2nYbQf)
(https://i.ibb.co/99qB19d/20230313-160110.jpg) (https://ibb.co/qMRhcM2)
(https://i.ibb.co/n3XyXT8/20230313-160046.jpg) (https://ibb.co/8zywyJ4)
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Lechler seems to have been trained in Lancaster, but shows up in the Carlisle. Cumberland Couty tax roles 1797-1843.
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Lechler is a well known rifle stocker. For additional info see the link below.
https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=68360.msg684241#msg684241
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Usually when you see this type of conversion it is done rather crudely. This one is done with finesse. I like it.
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Yep. Others I have seen just have a crude striker in the jaws.
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Barrel is stamped what appears to be W. PANNEPACKER near breech under wood. Anyone have any information on a W. Pannepacker?
(https://i.ibb.co/BTyhW4F/20230322-064610.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ssKTx5z)
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https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=32016.0
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Henry Lechler worked in Carlisle in the first quarter of the 1800s; he made very fine rifles, but doesn't get near the credit he deserves for his work, in my opinion. Pennepacker, also Pannebecker, was a barrel maker and a fine gun maker as well. Nice find you have made; thank you of posting the photos of your fine rifle. Best conversion that I can recall seeing.
Dick