Author Topic: Nice rifle unrestored, found in an attic. (Read 3184 times)

cshirsch · « **on:** June 21, 2023, 04:43:51 PM »

Nice rifle unrestored, found in an attic.

smylee grouch · « **Reply #1 on:** June 21, 2023, 05:34:37 PM »

Bling from the past. Nice gun from a talented maker.

Avlrc · « **Reply #2 on:** June 21, 2023, 06:30:48 PM »

Nice engraving.

Tanselman · « **Reply #3 on:** June 21, 2023, 07:09:54 PM »

It looks like a superb New York rifle, very fine work. The engraved images are well-cut and great... made for a wealthy owner in the 1850s. Great find to get one like this in original condition... no modern "clean up" or enhancements, and I hope you keep it like that. It's a little hard to see the wood, but it looks like curly walnut in the butt... another up-scale detail on a rifle like this. I'm a little jealous.

Shelby Gallien

ntqlvr1948 · « **Reply #4 on:** June 21, 2023, 07:31:13 PM »

I love attic finds

johngross · « **Reply #5 on:** June 21, 2023, 08:32:38 PM »

Robby · « **Reply #6 on:** June 21, 2023, 09:33:25 PM »

Love it!!!!
Robby

cshirsch · « **Reply #7 on:** June 23, 2023, 01:36:04 AM »

Quote from: Tanselman on June 21, 2023, 07:09:54 PM

It looks like a superb New York rifle, very fine work. The engraved images are well-cut and great... made for a wealthy owner about 1850. Great find to get one like this in original condition... no modern "clean up" or enhancements, and I hope you keep it like that. It's a little hard to see the wood, but it looks like curly walnut in the butt... another up-scale detail on a rifle like this. I'm a little jealous.

Shelby Gallien

You are probably correct about New York. The wood is highly figured walnut.

Metequa · « **Reply #8 on:** June 25, 2023, 06:53:35 PM »

very nice rifle, but the engraving really seems to stand out as being quite exceptional!

Yazel.xring · « **Reply #9 on:** June 26, 2023, 09:00:11 PM »

Beautiful! Glad it was found.

2 shots · « **Reply #10 on:** July 02, 2023, 11:53:35 PM »

im heading up to my attic right now.

JTR · « **Reply #11 on:** July 02, 2023, 11:57:02 PM »

What a nice find!
In your attic?
John

Bob Roller · « **Reply #12 on:** July 03, 2023, 04:31:55 PM »

Outstanding rifle and it shows decoration minus the absurd gaudiness seen on some.WHO made it?
Bob Roller

Arcturus · « **Reply #13 on:** July 04, 2023, 07:59:16 AM »

Nice piece of history, indeed. I'm always a little perplexed as to why the engravings on all of the 18th and 19th Century guns showing deer look more like European stags. It's as if none of these guys ever saw a whitetail deer and how their antlers have a mainbeam with tines... Is it a traditional European image they are emulating, were they ignorant of North American animals, or were they just way better at metal and wood work than they were at drawing a realistic image?

cshirsch · « **Reply #14 on:** July 04, 2023, 02:36:25 PM »

Quote from: Bob Roller on July 03, 2023, 04:31:55 PM

Outstanding rifle and it shows decoration minus the absurd gaudiness seen on some.WHO made it?
Bob Roller

Hey Bob, the rifle is not signed/stamped by the maker.

cshirsch · « **Reply #15 on:** July 04, 2023, 02:46:58 PM »

Quote from: JTR on July 02, 2023, 11:57:02 PM

What a nice find!
In your attic?
John

No, that was the story when I bought it.

Bob Roller · « **Reply #16 on:** July 06, 2023, 08:47:19 PM »

Quote from: Bob Roller on July 03, 2023, 04:31:55 PM

Outstanding rifle and it shows decoration minus the absurd gaudiness seen on some.WHO made it?
Bob Roller
I just saw the post saying it's unsigned.How about the lock or under the barrel?

Bob Roller

5judge · « **Reply #17 on:** July 07, 2023, 04:01:37 AM »

TDM · « **Reply #18 on:** July 18, 2023, 07:38:17 PM »

Awesome find!

D. Buck Stopshere · « **Reply #19 on:** July 22, 2023, 12:56:55 AM »

I have a similar rifle with the same furniture and inlays on the left cheek and flanking the buttplate that I bought at a local auction.

When I showed my photos to Frank House at the 2022 CLA Show, he seemed to point to New York for its birth. The barrel on mine was cleaned of patina, and about 6” of its length at the breech, was loped off to likely remove pitting there. Unfortunately, the removed section probably had the maker’s name or initials on the top flat.

Does NY have a longrifle collectors association and/or a gunmakers book series similar to the Association of Ohio Long Rifle Collectors books?

I’ll post photos soon.

oldtravler61 · « **Reply #20 on:** July 22, 2023, 03:09:36 AM »

Lucky find indeed.. Only thing in attic is dust..

godutch · « **Reply #21 on:** September 06, 2023, 11:06:51 PM »

I just came across this thread from awhile back and being from NY I'd love to believe it was made here. But my first impression before I even read the posts was, German and probably from there based on the artwork and high level of execution in particular. Unless, possibly, it was made in the Mohawk Valley which was still heavily German at the time. In which case a very talented, formally trained man built this in this style and in that area. Which is of course possible. I'm really just curious about this one and have no 'axe to grind' either way. To me it's just so.., well, German. The only thing missing seems to be a boar in the engraving. Thanks, Fred

Daryl · « **Reply #22 on:** September 06, 2023, 11:27:20 PM »

Euro background makes total sense, given the stags.

TDM · « **Reply #23 on:** September 14, 2023, 07:09:59 AM »

Beautiful rifle. I’m going to look through my attic just in case.

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