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Offline duca

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Martin Sheetz
« on: March 15, 2013, 04:34:03 AM »
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Offline Shreckmeister

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Re: Martin Sheetz
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2013, 05:41:16 AM »
Well yes it is!  He studied under George Unkafare.  I wonder if this is the family in
PA now known as Uncapher?  We have several in western PA.
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Re: Martin Sheetz
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2013, 04:31:37 PM »
. Indeed a special rifle. The rifle on page 282 2nd edition of  Kindigs book is attributed to Martin Sheetz..Seems like they was a high dollar pair of his pistols for sale several years ago. Here is the one that is pictured in   Kindigs book.
https://www.proxibid.com/asp/LotDetail.asp?ahid=4460&aid=44369&lid=11530066     I think this gun may have sold again a few years back. But might have it mixed up with another...
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Offline G-Man

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Re: Martin Sheetz
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2013, 06:33:25 PM »
My understanding is that it was his father, Phillip, who as an orphan was bound out to Unkafare in the 1760s (at the partial direction of George Shroyer). Phillip  Sheetz lived in the Little Conewago settlement located between present day Gettysburg and Hanover in Adams (then York) County.  He finsihed his apprenticeship and then moved, along with a lot of other German and Low Dutch settlers from that area, to Shepherdstown/Berkely County VA (now West VA) - by around 1770 give or take.  He apparently rejoined his older brother Henry in the gunmaking business there until his death around 1793.  Phillip's sons included Martin and John Jacob Sheetz, both well known gunsmiths.   Their family did wonderful work.

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Re: Martin Sheetz
« Reply #4 on: March 15, 2013, 10:36:02 PM »
$350,000.00 is a lot of Beans, I just saw one at the Prairie State Show here 3 weeks back and it was a great rifle.
Buck
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