Rifle with flint lock, full stock of curly maple, brass mountings and octagonal barrel 48 inches long with A. Ernst engraved on the top facet of the barrel.
Fowling piece with flint lock, full stock of curly maple, brass mountings, brass wire inlay, and octagon-to-round barrel 45 inchees long with A. Ernst engraved in script letters on the top facet of the barrel.
This fowling piece is made unusually attractive by the brass wire inlays, by the carved patterns on the cheek side of the stock and around the breech tang, and by the half moon inlay of silver. The six grooves filed on the top end of the butt plate are also evidence of careful and imaginative workmanship on the part of the maker.
Fowling piece with flint lock, full stock of curly maple, brass mountings, silver and brass inlays, octagonal-to-round barrel 46 i nches long with A. Ernst engraved on the top facet of the barrel. The fowling piece with its wire inlay, its silver half moon, and its highly engraved lock-bolt plate is an outstanding example of a Pennsylvania fowling piece.
