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.
Rifle with percussion lock, curly maple stock, brass mountings, octagonal barrel 40 inches long with S. H. Shillito on top facet of barrel. The pattern of the patch box is the typical one used by the gunsmiths of Franklin County in the first half of the nineteenth century. The bow of the trigger guard is unusually large for one trigger.
The form of the stock, the style of the carving, and the shape of the lock-bolt plate on this rifle was used by the gunsmiths in Somerset County in the last half of the nineteenth century. This one was made by one of the Dunmeyers.
