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EspañolTrash or Treasure: Kentucky Rifle (03/21/09)
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Trash or Treasure: Kentucky Rifle (03/21/09)
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Here's an excellent example of what is called a "Kentuck Rifle". However, the Kentucky rifle as many of you may know actually had it's origins in Pennsylvania, but because of it's association with Frontiersman like Daniel Boone, it became know as the Kentucky rifle. Now let me go ahead and show you the maker's name here on the lockplate...right down here...I believe it reads "S. Spangler", and Spangler was a Pennsylvanian who developed this early percussion cap type firing mechanism up here, and it was developed someplace in the vacinity of the early 1830's... and that's how old I believe this Kentucky rifle is! Now this weapon is loaded with all sorts of embelishments...these German silver and brass furnishings that go down through here...notice this fox, this fish here. The stock is gorgeous and it's curly maple, the barrel is octagon shaped, and the bore is somewhere in the neighborhood of let's say .50 to .54 caliber. The rifle is in excellent shape and has it's original matching curly maple ramrod...and back here on the butt it has a hand-chased patchbox. Ok... so how 'bout value on our Kentucky rifle? Well I think this one is going to be someplace in the $1200 to $1700, and maybe more than that to a collector since it is embelished very nicely! Now lets get down to our Powder horn here...I think probably about the same age...around the 1830's. But what I want you to notice about this one is up here...and let me turn it around... right here it reads "Life Member SAR", now SAR was "Sons of the American Revolution". Then on the back right here, on the backside, it reads "H.E.Gearhart". I did some research and I found out that there was a "Jacob Gearheart" who was a Captain in the American Revolutionary Army, and so more than likely this particular powder horn belonged to one of his direct descendants. Now also this is kinda "Folk Art-sie" too. Notice we have a horseshoe with a horse..and we have hearts, spades, clubs down here for card playing. And, then notice up here...this is really "Folk Art-ie", we have a "double headed" finial that you would attach a leather strap to to hang this over your shoulder. So...this is a very nice piece...and again very early! I believe the price on this is probably going to run somewhere between $500 and $700. So, very nice early, early Americana!
Author:
WBBH
Tags:
rifle, kentucky, antique,
Trash or Treasure: Kentucky Rifle (03/21/09)
Description:
Here's an excellent example of what is called a "Kentuck Rifle". However, the Kentucky rifle as many of you may know actually had it's origins in Pennsylvania, but because of it's association with Frontiersman like Daniel Boone, it became know as the Kentucky rifle. Now let me go ahead and show you the maker's name here on the lockplate...right down here...I believe it reads "S. Spangler", and Spangler was a Pennsylvanian who developed this early percussion cap type firing mechanism up here, and it was developed someplace in the vacinity of the early 1830's... and that's how old I believe this Kentucky rifle is! Now this weapon is loaded with all sorts of embelishments...these German silver and brass furnishings that go down through here...notice this fox, this fish here. The stock is gorgeous and it's curly maple, the barrel is octagon shaped, and the bore is somewhere in the neighborhood of let's say .50 to .54 caliber. The rifle is in excellent shape and has it's original matching curly maple ramrod...and back here on the butt it has a hand-chased patchbox. Ok... so how 'bout value on our Kentucky rifle? Well I think this one is going to be someplace in the $1200 to $1700, and maybe more than that to a collector since it is embelished very nicely! Now lets get down to our Powder horn here...I think probably about the same age...around the 1830's. But what I want you to notice about this one is up here...and let me turn it around... right here it reads "Life Member SAR", now SAR was "Sons of the American Revolution". Then on the back right here, on the backside, it reads "H.E.Gearhart". I did some research and I found out that there was a "Jacob Gearheart" who was a Captain in the American Revolutionary Army, and so more than likely this particular powder horn belonged to one of his direct descendants. Now also this is kinda "Folk Art-sie" too. Notice we have a horseshoe with a horse..and we have hearts, spades, clubs down here for card playing. And, then notice up here...this is really "Folk Art-ie", we have a "double headed" finial that you would attach a leather strap to to hang this over your shoulder. So...this is a very nice piece...and again very early! I believe the price on this is probably going to run somewhere between $500 and $700. So, very nice early, early Americana!
Author:
WBBH
Tags:
rifle, kentucky, antique,
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