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Offline nord

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150111-1 Bedford Somerset
« on: January 18, 2015, 11:27:29 PM »
We are pleased to present this unsigned rifle in the "Unknown PA Brass Furniture" section. Avery nice little rifle. Enjoy!

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Re: 150111-1 Bedford Somerset
« Reply #1 on: January 18, 2015, 11:33:13 PM »
Couldn't this rifle as easily be Lehigh?
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Re: 150111-1 Bedford Somerset
« Reply #2 on: January 18, 2015, 11:59:29 PM »


WOOPS - I found it here: http://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=33906.0   I was looking at 150110-1, the barn find Lehigh gun initially. 
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Offline Don Stith

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Re: 150111-1 Bedford Somerset
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2015, 03:03:46 AM »
Does anyone see anything Bedford or Somerset in the architecture of this rife?. I can buy Lehigh.
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Re: 150111-1 Bedford Somerset
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2015, 03:43:03 AM »
I think you guys are looking at two different animals.  Looks Bedford /Somerset to me.
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Re: 150111-1 Bedford Somerset
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2015, 04:07:27 AM »
looks like 3 of us were looking at the wrong rifle 1501101
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Re: 150111-1 Bedford Somerset
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2015, 04:43:49 AM »
Bedford-Somerset is 150111-1
Lehigh is 150110-1
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Re: 150111-1 Bedford Somerset
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2015, 03:55:43 PM »
Maybe I am being dense or getting senile. Please point me in the right direction/educate me.
 I am not looking at the wrong picture. What detail strikes you as Bedford on this piece other than maybe the patchbox finial?
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Re: 150111-1 Bedford Somerset
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2015, 08:31:13 PM »
 I'm with you Don. The patch box, and maybe the long nose cap, could be Bedford, or Somerset, but the rest don't add up. Muzzle Blasts recently had a gun on its cover, from Ohio, that had a few Bedford/Somerset features that was a closer match.

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Re: 150111-1 Bedford Somerset
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2015, 08:48:55 PM »
This gun has been added to the Virtual Museum and Library, so should we assume the Bedford/Somerset attribution is the conclusion of the Library Committee?  

John
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Re: 150111-1 Bedford Somerset
« Reply #10 on: January 20, 2015, 04:02:14 AM »
Both of these links are now working and listed in the museum under Unknown Makers- Brass
Furniture. They are the last two listed.
http://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=33905.0
http://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=34053.0
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