Rifle with flint lock, full stock of curly maple, brass mountings, and octagonal barrel with P. Bellis engraved in the top facet of the barrel. The style of the patch box on this gun suggests a close connection with S. Miller who might be called one of Bellis' distant neighbors. His use of two rivets in the patch box lid also suggests that he was influenced by John Bonawitz of Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania. The rifle was probably made in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
