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Attractive American Revolutionary War Era Flintlock Long Rifle
the caliber as smaller than .54, so the barrel may be “coned” at the muzzle and smaller caliber for most of its length. In Shumway’s subsequent book “George Schreyer, Sr. & Jr., Gunmakers of Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania,” he notes that several of the guns he featured in “RCA Vol II”“certainly were not all made by the same hand, and attribution to Schreyer does not now seem suitable. . .” He suggests some of these previously Schreyer attributed guns were the work of gunmakers from Reading, Pennsylvania, where Schreyer worked before he moved to Hanover, possibly including Wolfgang Hachen (Haga). The barrel has rifle style blade and notch sights and is not marked. The Germanic lock
is also unmarked. It has a single trigger. The furniture is brass. The stock has attractive molding along the forend terminating in a raised relief floral fluer-de-lis style pattern at the ramrod entry pipe, additional fluer-de-lis at the barrel tang, shapely tear drop flats, scroll carving at the front of the comb/wrist, raised molding along the bottom of the butt, mix of beautiful incised and raised relief carving along the left side of the butt including a small crosshatch panel under the cheek rest and sweeping scrolls at the butt.
LOT 3084
Desirable Documented 18th Century Relief Carved Smoothbore Flintlock American Long Rifle - NSN, 54 cal., 45 5/8 inch octagon bbl., unknown finish, maple stock. This smoothbore rifle or “smooth rifle” is pictured and described in “Rifles of Colonial America Vol. II” by George Shumway as rifle no. 95 and was also discussed as part of his “Longrifles of Note” series in the February 1980 issue of Muzzle Blasts. Both sources attributed it as George Schroyer Sr.’s work c. 1775-1790. Both the book and the article list