I recently completed a long rifle and posted it here.
http://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=23558.msg225613#msg225613There were several subsequent, and greatly appreciated, constructive discussions about design, engraving, carving, architecture, etc., that I have taken to heart as I begin to finish the next of three rifles I also started many years ago and then stopped as I learned here on ALR how much I didn't know. In my original discussions about the above post, I neglected to mention that the two rifles that probably most inspired what I was originally attempting to do had shown up in a single photograph on the cover of a book published by the KRA in 1985 (The Kentucky Rifle, a True American Heritage in Picture). I bought the book when it first came out and admired the two rifles on the cover ever since. (Side note, Bill Shipman built a magnificent rifle generally patterned after a George Kreps rifle that had also caught my eye in this book - page 49.
http://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=5337.0)
Here is a poor scan of the poor condition book jacket that I still have so you can see what I'm talking about.
Unfortunately, the book contained no other photos of these two rifles. There are two other Noll rifles, but not the one on the cover and no mention at all of Nunnamacher (lower one in the picture above.)
I have found a few more fairly poor, black & white photos of this same Nunnamacher rifle in the book "Accouterments" by James Johnson and a few more photos of both the Nunnamacher and Noll rifle in "Thoughts on the Kentucky Rifle in its Golden Age" (Kindig, et al, 1971)
My question is, in the past 30 or 40 years, has anyone published any more and better photos of these two lovely rifles? I do not know if there is even another Nunnamacher rifle known to exist. I would think that someone somewhere would have published better photos, but I can't seem to find any.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
