Dickert Gill barrel signature

[spgordon]

Dear list-members,

If anybody owns a rifle with a Dickert Gill barrel signature and is willing to supply a high-resolution image of the barrel signature, which would appear in a forthcoming article on Jacob Dickert, could you please contact me at spg4@lehigh.edu ?

The article about Dickert will appear in a new online volume about German Immigrant Entrepreneurship (http://www.immigrantentrepreneurship.org/volume.php?rec=1).

Thanks in advance,

Scott Gordon

[Hurricane ( of Virginia)]

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[Sean]

Please post a link when the article is completed.

[spgordon]

I'll definitely post a link. And thanks to all of you who replied off-line with offers of Dickert Gill barrel signature photos.

Here's something interesting (maybe).

Published materials often refer to Dickert's grandsons as "Jacob Dickert Gill" and "Benjamin Dickert Gill."

In all the Moravian sources--congregational diaries, baptism records (including baptisms of Benjamin Gill's children), burial records, congregational membership lists--Benjamin is consistently listed as "Benjamin Gill" (no Dickert as a middle name), while his brother is equally consistently listed as "Jacob Dickert Gill."

(BTW, the baptism record for Benjamin's son, I think in 1818, lists Benjamin Gill as a "Cabinet Maker." I don't note this to suggest that he wasn't, also, producing rifles. But it is worth noting.)

So: does anybody know of contemporary sources that refer to one of the grandsons as "Benjamin Dickert Gill" or even "Benjamin D. Gill"? I haven't yet checked Lancaster tax records to see how they refer to him.

Scott

[louieparker]

Scott

Milton Von Damm has just published a new book on the fur trade,,  He pictures a rifle by    Dickert Gill    and a photo of the barrel signature. It is not Dickert & Gill.. The Dickert is by the hand of Jacob. The Gill is by another hand..
This rifle doesn't have the crossed arrow and tomahawk.  But the rifles I have seen by D.B. Gill do.

I don't have Milt's email address at hand but will look it up if anyone is interested............Louie parker