One thing that I find really interesting is that it appears to my eye that you can clearly see the origins of the later Northampton/Lehigh buttplates i.e. Neihart, Molls, Rupps etc. and the manner in which the shorter comb return was let into the comb rather than completely spanning it. I'm not saying this is entirely done in this manner but it looks like somewhat of a bridge between the Oerter rifles and the Allentown area pieces of the 1790s (or late 1780s I guess in consideration of Neihart's 1787 dated rifle).
