Author Topic: Rienhard connection?  (Read 3258 times)

Offline Gaeckle

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Rienhard connection?
« on: June 24, 2013, 04:43:29 PM »
Over the weekend I picked up a slim Ohio halfstock that has the look and feel of a Peter Rienhard. The capbox lid sports typical engraving that is so commonly found on many Rienhard pieces. The rifle was not made by Rienhard, but what many believe to be an apprentice. The barrel is a hand hammered barrel that has been in other guns and the butplate shows casting inclusions. The guard is one that Rienhard probably would not have used.......all these elements connected together hints at a gun that was made by an understudy.....






























Offline Collector

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Re: Rienhard connection?
« Reply #1 on: June 24, 2013, 05:42:58 PM »
Rounded- no panel opposite side of the lock- I'm more inclined to go with it being a NY state rifle. 

Nice, clean looking piece.

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Re: Rienhard connection?
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2013, 10:54:10 PM »
I've got to go with the Collector. Not sure about NY but wouldn't attribute it to Reinhard's shop either. Just looks like an old restock of old parts.
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Re: Rienhard connection?
« Reply #3 on: June 25, 2013, 03:35:24 PM »
The holes on the bottom of the barrel look like tenon holes. This barrel was likely in a full stock in an earlier life.
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Re: Rienhard connection?
« Reply #4 on: June 25, 2013, 03:44:59 PM »
The holes on the bottom of the barrel look like tenon holes. This barrel was likely in a full stock in an earlier life.


........They are, the barrel has been in another gun.....the barrel is held in by a wedge that passes thru a slot fastened to an unseen thimble......there are three thimbles attatched to the barrel...........

This was sitting up at the Log Cabin Shop and there are many thoughts and speculations regading this and it's orgins.

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Re: Rienhard connection?
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2013, 08:35:12 PM »
Besides the rounded - no panel feature, there is the very utilitarian single escutcheon 'nut,' the hardware which looks very NY, to me, single wedge (though most I've seen used a pin,) probably no half cock and only fires if the trigger is set, cast in-place pewter nose cap and looks like it may have an ever so slight perch belly along the bottom lines of the stock.  I think used barrels were more the norm than we realize.  Most of the barrels in NY pieces I've come across were re-purposed.  And scary thin through the lock bolt area.  Yep... NY

Cap box added later, sometime?  Any patina to the brass on the interior of the box?  At a minimum, I think someone went out of their way to index the screws.  Who knows.

Still, a nice clean piece.