Top part of copper still made by Francis Sanderson of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Baltimore, Maryland. This one is very unusual for it is joined by cramped joints instead of the common method of joining the various parts with rivets. Courtesy of Colonial Williamsburg.
Provenance
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Match rifle with percussion lock marked J. Fordney, Lancaster. The plain maple stock has brass mountings and is unusually big to accommodate the heavy barrel. The rifle weighs twenty pounds.
Rifle with back action percussion lock, full stock of curly maple, brass mountings, silver inlays, set triggers, octagonal barrel 40 inches long with J. Fordney, Lancaster, Pa., in block letters on the top facet of the barrel.
