Rifle with flint lock (now percussion), full stock of curly maple, brass mountings, and octagonal barrel marked C. Beck in script letters on the top facet of the barrel. C. Beck was a contemporary of J.P. Beck and N. Beyer, all of whom worked in the same area. Their carved patterns have elements in common and the patch box on this gun was used by both C. & J.P. Beck. This patch box is not engraved but a few are known that are engraved.
Rifle with flint lock, full stock of curly maple, brass mountings, octagonal barrel 44 inches long marked John Moll on the top facet of the barrel. Although this rifle was probably made in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the design of its two-piece patch box resembles a pattern used at a much earlier time in Northampton County.
Rifle with flint lock, full stock of curly maple, brass mountings, octagonal barrel 44 inches long marked John Moll on the top facet of the barrel. Although this rifle was probably made in the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the design of its two-piece patch box resembles a pattern used at a much earlier time in Northampton County.