It is signed on the top of the barrel “JB”. My thinking is that it is from the Valley of Virginia. I don’t know who “JB” was, but maybe one of your viewers will have an idea.
It has about the most elegant architecture of any rifle I have owned, with a beautifully molded cheek piece, lower molding on the buttstock and foreshock. The surprising thing is that it has no patchbox. All I can guess is that the customer didn’t use one so he didn’t want to pay for one. There is a feather hole in the lower buttstock.
61 1/4” overall
46 1/4” swamped barrel
.40 caliber
iron guards and buttplate
brass thimbles
double triggers. The front trigger has an atypical shape
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