What school or maker is this trigger guard? - #1

[Ky-Flinter]

I'm trying to identify the butt plates and trigger guards in my stash.  I've ID's most, but I still have a few loose ends.  It seems to me that many of the trigger guards used by different makers, and even different schools were very similar.  I'm thinking it would be very difficult to identify a maker solely on a particular trigger guard.  Rather, I think we will have better luck stating this maker, or that maker, have been known to use a particular trigger guard.

With all that said, I've looked thru all my reference books and I haven't found any guns using a guard like this one.  It's most distinctive feature is the forward end of the grip rail ends in a point (>) not squared off, as so many are.  The forward mounting tab has a 4 cast in.   Any ideas on what maker(s) or school(s) used this guard?  Thanks.

-Ron

[bgf]

My thought was wolflgang haga, something like this one:
https://www.trackofthewolf.com/Categories/PartDetail.aspx/922/1/TG-E-36-B
"Reading and Berks County"?  Just a guess.  I have a similar one (maybe one above) heavily modified for a southern rifle, until my son decided he wanted iron mounts. 

[mtlonghunter]

We do realize that there are no signed rifles by Mr. Haga.

[mark esterly]

track #tg-ma -143-b or s  reading berks or phila.  copy of original haga

[Ky-Flinter]

Thanks guys, appreciate the input.  I think my guard may be the same as TOW's TG-E-1-B. but that doesn't tell me which, if any, of the old makers/schools used it.  In the TOW description it says "Use this on your next replica of a Wolfgang Haga longrifle."

There is only one problem with that.  There are no known/signed Wolfgang Haga guns.  So your guess is as good as mine as to what furniture was used on a Wolfgang Haga gun.  TOW is a great company, lots of good products, but I've learned I cannot rely on their descriptions when trying to match parts to an original.

The Wolfgang Haga attribution got started when Joe Kindig III decided Haga must have built all these similar guns he had collected from the Reading/Berks area.  Unfortunately, Kindig does not show any of the guns in the Reading chapter from the bottom.  RCA does show some Reading guns from the bottom, but none have the point (>) on the guard bow.

The quest continues......

-Ron

[bgf]

We do realize that there are no signed rifles by Mr. Haga.

Not my area, just remembered that was the attribution on a similar one I had.  I used it for the relatively large bowl and short grip rail.

Ron,
That detail on the end of the grip rail doesnt strike me as unusual or unique, but I guess I focus on strange stuff .