I have a note in my records...
"It was inspired by what is known as the 'Cellers' rifle that is plate #1 in John Bivins book, Long Rifles of North Carolina."
The book "Kentucky Rifle Patchboxes & Barrel Marks" by Roy Chandler has a picture of this rifle/patchbox. It's listed as #294. Unfortunately the descriptions he used were pretty poor. At the time (early 70's) people were still focused on crediting these objects by collector/owner name rather than a meaningful descriptions of the objects themselves. I'm glad that practice has fallen out of favor. Probably because it set the owners up for potential burglary and theft.
Anyway... my note says that Hershel House first used it in 1984 for a rifle he made for his cousin Willie White.
