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General discussion => Antique Gun Collecting => Topic started by: albert on August 28, 2020, 02:47:27 AM

Title: Unusual cheek piece can anyone place a builder on this one ?
Post by: albert on August 28, 2020, 02:47:27 AM
(https://i.ibb.co/Xpvt0R1/20200826-182457.jpg) (https://ibb.co/L621j7m)

(https://i.ibb.co/JFV1NPt/20200826-182441.jpg) (https://ibb.co/CsgcqF8)

(https://i.ibb.co/j5Dpj4Z/20200826-182639.jpg) (https://ibb.co/ZJxZbT1)
Title: Re: Unusual cheek piece
Post by: albert on August 28, 2020, 02:49:10 AM

(https://i.ibb.co/VQYCj52/20200826-182424.jpg) (https://ibb.co/WPvzxjg)
Title: Re: Unusual cheek piece
Post by: albert on August 28, 2020, 03:16:12 AM

(https://i.ibb.co/CbyShvQ/20200827-191213-capture.jpg) (https://ibb.co/F51dgJz)
Title: Re: Unusual cheek piece can anyone place a builder on this one ?
Post by: Buck on August 28, 2020, 03:47:15 AM
Albert looks like a Huntington county rifle to me - might be wrong but it’s my guess - maybe a Dunmeyer?

Buck
Title: Re: Unusual cheek piece can anyone place a builder on this one ?
Post by: mr. no gold on August 29, 2020, 07:46:15 AM
I think that you nailed it Buck: Huntingdon County. The odd trigger (might be single set) and the chamfered edge of the butt plate finial at the comb is almost a Huntingdon signature. If it is unsigned, it will take awhile to pin down a maker. It's a nice rifle and could use some extra care, it appears. Our good friend Dr. Jim Whisker lists a Casper Ealy Davis as a gunmaker in the region. He was born in 1848 and died in 1928. He could have been your guy. Nice rifle and I would like to thank you for showing on the ALR Forum.
Dick
Title: Re: Unusual cheek piece can anyone place a builder on this one ?
Post by: albert on August 29, 2020, 04:28:53 PM
Speaking of the trigger , it was originally a set trigger , but somewhere in its time the triggers were damaged or something  , because the trigger that is there is crudely made , and  it's not made to be used as a set trigger , the plate is originally made for double triggers
Title: Re: Unusual cheek piece can anyone place a builder on this one ?
Post by: Mark Tyler on August 30, 2020, 05:57:15 AM
https://www.gunsinternational.com/guns-for-sale-online/rifles/kentucky-rifles/fine-mifflin-county--pennsylvania-percussion-long-rifle-by-christian-detwiler-ca--1850-s-.cfm?gun_id=101401624

Title: Re: Unusual cheek piece can anyone place a builder on this one ?
Post by: albert on August 31, 2020, 05:24:06 AM
Mark , thanks for the information , didn't see that one for sale.
Title: Re: Unusual cheek piece can anyone place a builder on this one ?
Post by: JTR on August 31, 2020, 07:18:58 PM
That's the same gun.  :o
Did you not buy it from that site?
Title: Re: Unusual cheek piece can anyone place a builder on this one ?
Post by: albert on August 31, 2020, 08:20:33 PM
A friend bought it , he brought it to me to strengthen the broken wood where it was cracked and possibly going to come apart , put missing pins in to hold barrel. IMHO , he paid more tha  it was worth . It wasn't in very good+ condition as to what I  read in the description  that was posted on the website , but if it is a rare piece that might command the price.  One other thing I  put a bore light fown the bbl. and couldn't see any evidence of riffing.
Title: Re: Unusual cheek piece can anyone place a builder on this one ?
Post by: far55 on September 03, 2020, 03:49:44 AM
Could you post a bottom shot of the trigger guard? I have what I think is a Detweiler that has been fitted with a steel guard screwed on.  Just trying to figure out what style I need, maybe a Huntingdon ? Thanks, Roland
Title: Re: Unusual cheek piece can anyone place a builder on this one ?
Post by: albert on September 03, 2020, 08:18:10 PM

(https://i.ibb.co/7rY5bSF/20200826-182732.jpg) (https://ibb.co/p408n1p)


Thi is the only other picture I have
Title: Re: Unusual cheek piece can anyone place a builder on this one ?
Post by: far55 on September 03, 2020, 09:41:44 PM
Ok, Thank you for posting,   Roland