Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Antique Iron Mounted Rifle












Photographed at the 2012 Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show by Jan Riser.
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  1. AnonymousJune 13, 2012 at 7:34 AM

    This is a really nice rifle - looks to be as southern as can be - but hard to pin down where it might have been made. It does not look to me like something made in the Tennessee or western North Carolina mountains - more like something from a gunsmith who learned there but moved farther west or south - maybe Georgia or Alabama, even Missouri. But hard to say. One interesting thing is the patchbox - a rare example of an iron box with pierced sidepanels. Interestingly there was a signed brass mounted gun from western PA just 2 tables away at the same show with the exact same patchbox in brass. It makes one wonder if some of these boxes were manufactured and then shipped and sold down the Ohio/Mississippi Valley for sale to gusnmiths, or perhaps the maker saw the style on another rifle and used it as a pattern.

    GM

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