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Offline Don Stith

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G Feder flintlock
« on: September 02, 2018, 02:21:03 AM »
If I can get it to work. I'll post some photos of a nice original flintlock that I got to see today
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Offline jdm

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Re: G Feder flintlock
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2018, 03:23:50 AM »
Who said they had to be fancy. That's pretty nice . I like the man in the moon.  Reading ? Dauphin Co. ?
Thanks Don!
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Re: G Feder flintlock
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2018, 04:26:40 AM »
Berks county? 
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Offline Don Stith

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Re: G Feder flintlock
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2018, 04:30:25 AM »
I think Reading, but welcome more knowledgeable opinions. I think it is finding a new home right here in Troutville.
 Bought a new Subaru today. Might as well celebrate with a new rifle
Don
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Re: G Feder flintlock
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2018, 05:44:17 AM »
Don, you’re rolling in it!  Really love that style of lock.  Great that it’s unaltered.  Sure seems Reading area to me. 
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Re: G Feder flintlock
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2018, 02:16:30 PM »
Hi,
Kindig thought G. Feder had some connection with Peter Angstad of Berks county.  Hornberger and Kindig (III) show a George Feder rifle in their book "Masterpieces of the American Longrifle" and list him as from Berks County with the gun dated 1815.

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Re: G Feder flintlock
« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2018, 07:28:40 PM »
Don,

Lancaster - Berks, he was on the border there with the Pannabeckers. The barrels most likely a Pannabecker. I had a nice one that's in the Library, there were 2 of them Senior and Junior. Senior signed the barrels Junior stamped the barrels (typically). Nice rifle.

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Re: G Feder flintlock
« Reply #7 on: September 05, 2018, 05:05:32 AM »
Neat rifle, thanks for sharing. Curious, when do we typically see (time period) the divided side plates on patch boxes in that area?

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Re: G Feder flintlock
« Reply #8 on: September 05, 2018, 07:13:00 PM »
Matt,

There's an "Early Peter Gonter" in Thoughts (Kindig), He thought the last decade of the 18th Century.

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