AmericanLongRifles Forums

General discussion => Antique Gun Collecting => Topic started by: Dphariss on August 27, 2018, 05:32:36 PM

Title: Dickert on Antiques Road show some years back.
Post by: Dphariss on August 27, 2018, 05:32:36 PM

I don't know if this has been posted before or not. The front trigger on this rifle is interesting.
Dan
https://www.pbs.org/video/antiques-roadshow-appraisal-jacob-dickert-pennsylvania-rifle/

Title: Re: Dickert on Antiques Road show some years back.
Post by: Dphariss on August 27, 2018, 05:34:39 PM

Quote from: Dphariss on August 27, 2018, 05:32:36 PM

I don't know if this has been posted before or not. The front trigger on this rifle is interesting.
Dan
https://www.pbs.org/video/antiques-roadshow-appraisal-jacob-dickert-pennsylvania-rifle/

The signature area looks like it has a charcoal blue that is pretty scaly.

Title: Re: Dickert on Antiques Road show some years back.
Post by: p.d. on August 27, 2018, 05:45:15 PM

Thanks for posting that.  A beautiful rifle.

Title: Re: Dickert on Antiques Road show some years back.
Post by: rich pierce on August 27, 2018, 08:08:01 PM

Front trigger is odd. Great looking rifle. Fantastic color

Title: Re: Dickert on Antiques Road show some years back.
Post by: JTR on August 27, 2018, 10:34:45 PM

Interesting.
I know of an 1820-ish rifle signed WW with that same scaly charcoal blue color on the barrel.
John

Title: Re: Dickert on Antiques Road show some years back.
Post by: Pennsylvania Dutchman on August 28, 2018, 12:08:01 AM

The tip of the rear trigger is odd also. It looks like it is shaped like a thumbnail finial on a buttplate of trigger guard. Nice rifle!
Mark

Title: Re: Dickert on Antiques Road show some years back.
Post by: PPatch on August 28, 2018, 12:17:07 AM

Beautiful carving, architecture and furniture, those triggers are styling. J. Dickert did some fine work.

dave

Title: Re: Dickert on Antiques Road show some years back.
Post by: Tim Crosby on August 28, 2018, 05:05:20 PM

 Are the set triggers unusual for the time frame?

      Tim C.

Title: Re: Dickert on Antiques Road show some years back.
Post by: rich pierce on August 28, 2018, 05:37:59 PM

A curled trigger is normally a single, simple trigger. Normally the front trigger on a double set trigger is quite skinny for a sensitive feel, I guess.

Title: Re: Dickert on Antiques Road show some years back.
Post by: crankshaft on September 20, 2018, 08:41:59 PM

 :(

It really sucketh the rifle lost so much value over the years.    :-[

Title: Re: Dickert on Antiques Road show some years back.
Post by: WElliott on September 21, 2018, 05:30:20 AM

Onw also has to consider whether the original appraisal was overly optimistic. 

Title: Re: Dickert on Antiques Road show some years back.
Post by: jdm on September 21, 2018, 06:40:03 PM

[quote author=WElliott
Onw also has to consider whether the original appraisal was overly optimistic. 
Most of the time!!

Title: Re: Dickert on Antiques Road show some years back.
Post by: Bill Wilde on October 20, 2018, 01:49:19 AM

Besides this episode of Antique Roadshow, I'm wondering if this rifle has ever been featured in a publication for students of American Longrifles? If so, I'd love to see more of this grand rifle.