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General discussion => Antique Gun Collecting => Topic started by: david64 on July 26, 2008, 05:09:30 PM
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This article is taken from the June 1976 issue of Muzzle Blasts magazine. I thought that others might like to read it too.
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There was an LW McInturff who worked in Unicoi County (upper east TN) - according to John Rice Irwin's book he, like many others in the mountain regions, supported the Union in the Civil War and formed a compnay of volunteers.
That is a neat gun - looks to have some "Gillespie" in it to me.
Guy
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Jerry Nobles mentions this rifle in Vol. signed on the barrel "McInturff Defies the World". Wonder what that meant?
He attributes it to McInturff Jr.
Ken
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David,
Thanks for posting the article. It's before my time and I had never seen it. I have filed away. I see Gillespie like Guy does except for the lock plate and trigger guard with the tiny curl. Both I have seen on upper E. TN guns.
I love the grease hole.
Ken
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That is a neat gun - looks to have some "Gillespie" in it to me.
Guy
I see Gillespie like Guy does except for the lock plate and trigger guard with the tiny curl. Ken
Well I do too! I have only seen oval shaped grease holes on Gillespie's and somewhere I have a photo of a signed Gillespie with a trigger guard that is very much like that one. I will dig it up later and post a photo of it.
Dennis