This relatively plain rifle incorporates a sliding wood patch box and brass buttplate, elements sometimes absent from "poor boy" rifles, and would have been the type likely most widely owned by farmers and other laborers in the early 19th century. The only marking found on this rifle is an "H-V-F" stamp on the underside of the lock. A Kentucky style flintlock pistol with the same mark on its very similar, if not matching, lock was identified as "probably pre-Revolutionary War" in "Guns of the Old West" by Chapel. Locks of this design were likely purchased from a hardware merchant after being made in a city or imported from Europe. There are similar rifles by makers from Lancaster County and Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, in the years immediately following the War of 1812. It has a set of very low blade front and notch rear sights. A forged iron cleaning worm is inside the patch box.