It's definitely Young's (of Easton) hardware, and the stock shaping is even in alignment with early 19th century work. I find the crude nature of the sideplates odd however, although one might view them as simply big "blanks" that could be decoratively pierced and filed out to the more characteristic high quality Young shaping and engraving. IF its all original, maybe it was just a cheap rifle or finished in a hurry. It's tough to view something like that without pasting our current modes of thinking upon it, but that's not really the right way to view it. Overall I definitely like it and I have a thing for those box finials (which have popped up once or twice down into Bucks Co. also, to the south of Easton).
