Author Topic: Shumway #58 info?  (Read 2790 times)

750k2

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Shumway #58 info?
« on: December 25, 2011, 03:30:42 PM »
I would like to know any sources of info on this gun.
Anything at all.
Anyone know where it it located?

Offline Tom Currie

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Re: Shumway #58 info?
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2011, 06:17:13 PM »
It's obvious by the lack of response that info on RCA  # 58 is spare or closely guarded. I can tell you that I've read specualtion that this could be a Vernor made smoothbore based on stock profile similairity and tang carving on RCA #63. Dr. Shumway has this in the Lehigh section but it clearly exhibits Bucks County work but without all the bells and whistles.

750k2

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Re: Shumway #58 info?
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2011, 02:34:23 PM »
I'm still hoping but may have to go with something else.
Not a big deal as I'm in the planning stages.

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Re: Shumway #58 info?
« Reply #3 on: December 31, 2011, 02:04:02 AM »
I've never had an opportunity to handle/examine that gun but from the pictures it looks like the trigger guard front extension was cut down from an earlier Rocco design where the profile would have matched the c & s scrolls --- perhaps it is off an earlier European gun. It seems out of character with the butt piece which is more typical of a 1790 American rifle.
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