That is a beautiful common man's gun. I love the lines. Great finish too. It represents a whole lot of guns that never made it to our era because the were used hard and used up. Well done. Well done indeed.
Jim Webb told me he saw some shipping orders for guns that went to the Appalachian mountains. I tend to think of Jamestown NC and Salem NC as crafting some distinctive, beautiful, accomplished and embellished guns and rifles. The orders Jim saw were for huge quantities of unmarked, plain, common man guns. There certainly was not as much money in the mountains as there was in, say, Salem so it makes sense. The point here is to not think that all plain common man guns came from back woods gunsmiths toiling away in a hut in the mountains.
The lines on Kevin's gun here could easily have come from one of the shops of a well known period builder.
God Bless, Marc
