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Offline Shreckmeister

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Somerset/Huntingdon PA rifle
« on: March 21, 2019, 08:33:44 PM »
I posted this rifle 10 years. ago.  Still looking for the maker.  There is a capital D in the signature and not much more can be made out.









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Re: Somerset/Huntingdon PA rifle
« Reply #1 on: March 21, 2019, 08:35:03 PM »






Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

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Re: Somerset/Huntingdon PA rifle
« Reply #2 on: March 23, 2019, 04:07:50 AM »
Nice rifle for the late period. Are you thinking 1840's?

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Re: Somerset/Huntingdon PA rifle
« Reply #3 on: March 23, 2019, 05:04:08 AM »
Greetings,

Just stumbled onto this current auction listing described as a "Fine Huntingdon County Percussion Kentucky Longrifle Signed Douglass With 34 Silver Inlays." Also with the "top flat stamped "D. DOUGLASS"

https://auctions.morphyauctions.com/_A__Fine_Huntingdon_County_Percussion_Kentucky_Lon-LOT458870.aspx

Maybe from the same hand?

Kevin



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Re: Somerset/Huntingdon PA rifle
« Reply #4 on: March 23, 2019, 05:35:33 AM »
Greetings,

Just stumbled onto this current auction listing described as a "Fine Huntingdon County Percussion Kentucky Longrifle Signed Douglass With 34 Silver Inlays." Also with the "top flat stamped "D. DOUGLASS"

https://auctions.morphyauctions.com/_A__Fine_Huntingdon_County_Percussion_Kentucky_Lon-LOT458870.aspx

Maybe from the same hand?

Kevin
That is pretty neat, you found another great rifle & discovered the maker of Shreckmeister's rifle.

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Re: Somerset/Huntingdon PA rifle
« Reply #5 on: March 23, 2019, 06:32:30 AM »
Greetings,

Just stumbled onto this current auction listing described as a "Fine Huntingdon County Percussion Kentucky Longrifle Signed Douglass With 34 Silver Inlays." Also with the "top flat stamped "D. DOUGLASS"

https://auctions.morphyauctions.com/_A__Fine_Huntingdon_County_Percussion_Kentucky_Lon-LOT458870.aspx

Maybe from the same hand?

Kevin
That is pretty neat, you found another great rifle & discovered the maker of Shreckmeister's rifle.

Not a David Douglass rifle and not a Huntingdon County Rifle in my opinion.

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Re: Somerset/Huntingdon PA rifle
« Reply #6 on: March 23, 2019, 03:30:13 PM »
I also think not Douglass. Where would you locate the origin of this rifle Mark?  I trust your judgement given your experience and this is your home area.
Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.