Monday, July 22, 2019

Antique Rifle by Elliott

Stylistically this rifle could have been made in middle SC or middle Georgia. There were several SC gunsmiths named Elliott. The most intriguing possibility is that the 1850 census lists a gunsmith named Elliott working in Augusta, Georgia, who was a “slave owned by George Summers.”    






















Photographed at the 2019 Tennessee Kentucky Rifle Show by Jan Riser.

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