JTR and anyone interested - to follow up on the Poulin auction thread, here are two rifles that I think may be later rifles by John Hagy, the maker of lot # 3508. I did a little digging about Hagy:
- Born in Cocalico Township, in February 1771.
- Appears on the census in 1793.
- Married in 1795.
- His father was a Jacob Hagy, who was a weaver, and John had one son Daniel who was a farmer. So I believe there was only one John Hagy gunsmith.
- Lived near the village of Shoeneck, near Denver, PA and about 5 miles from the Berks County line (near where Morphy Auctions is now located).
- Was still taxed as a gunsmith as late as 1850 in the West Cocalico Twp tax record.
- In his 1849 will he describes himself as a gunsmith.
- Died in 1856.
In the pictures, the two later guns are shown together in many of the pictures. But I also include a few side-by-side photos with the gun currently at poulin. If Hagy made these two later rifles they may be of a type he made later in life, after some evolution of patchbox head shape, comb to a later style than his earlier work.
