Obverse and reverse sides of a brass patch box for a kenturcky rifle signed by the maker, Henry Boulton, Pennsylvania. Signed parts of this type are extremely rare.
Rifle with flint lock, full stock of walnut, brass mountings, octagonal barrel with Jacob Kraft engraved in script letters on the top facet of the barrel. Plate 224, page 278 of Henry Kauffman's "Pennsylvania - Kentucky Rifle".
Rifle with flink lock, full stock of curly maple, brass mountings, and octagonal-to-round barrel 48 inches long with J. Haeffer engraved in block letters on the top facet of the barrel.
Rifle with percussion lock, full stock of curly maple, brass mountings, set triggers, octagonal barrel 36 inches long with Dunmeyer on the top facet of the barrel. Because of the scarcity of signed Dunmeyer rifles it is impossible to determine which of the three gunsmiths by that name made this rifle.
Rifle with percussion lock, curly maple half stock, brass mountings, set triggers, silver inlays, octagonal barrel 36 inches long with Sam. Meir on top facet of the barrel. The ferrule on the forestock is made of pewter, as many were half-stocked guns. The trigger guard suggests late nineteenth century production. While Meir's shop was in Somerset, it was located on Main Street.
