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Shoemaker + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks" + +Author: Henry W. Shoemaker + +Release Date: January 25, 2007 [EBook #20442] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FIREARMS CATALOGUE *** + + + + +Produced by Greg Weeks, La Monte H. P. Yarroll, and the +Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +http://www.pgdp.net. + + + + + + +</pre> + + + + + +<h3>A CATALOGUE <i>of</i></h3> +<h1>EARLY PENNSYLVANIA</h1> +<h3><i>and other</i></h3> +<h1>FIREARMS <i>and</i> EDGED<br /> +WEAPONS</h1> + +<h3><i>at</i></h3> + +<h2>"RESTLESS OAKS"</h2> +<h3>McELHATTAN, PA.</h3> + +<p class="figcenter" style="width: 300px;"> +<img src="images/image001.png" width="300" height="311" alt="" title="" /> +</p> + +<h4><i>Collected by</i></h4> +<h2>HENRY W. SHOEMAKER</h2> +<h4>Lieut. Col., Res., U. S. A.</h4> + +<hr style="width: 15%;" /> +<h4><i>Compiled by</i></h4> +<h2>H. BEAM PIPER, <i>of Altoona, Pa.</i></h2> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p class="figcenter" style="width: 580px;"> +<img src="images/image002.png" width="580" height="321" alt="THE LAST OF THE PENNSYLVANIA WAYSIDE GUNSMITHS +BUSLER BROTHERS, CLINTON COUNTY, PA. + +(Frontispiece)" title="THE LAST OF THE PENNSYLVANIA WAYSIDE GUNSMITHS BUSLER BROTHERS, CLINTON COUNTY, PA." /> +<span class="caption">THE LAST OF THE PENNSYLVANIA WAYSIDE GUNSMITHS<br /> +BUSLER BROTHERS, CLINTON COUNTY, PA.<br /> +(Frontispiece)</span> +</p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + +<p class="center"> +<i>"Aerataeque Micant Peltae, Micat Aereus Ensis."</i><br /> +—<span class="smcap">Virgil</span>, Aen. VIII, 743</p> + +<p class="center">DEDICATED TO THE PENNSYLVANIA FOLK-LORE SOCIETY,<br /> +BY THE COMPILER +</p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + + + +<h2>CONTENTS</h2> +<div class='center'> +<table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" width="70%" summary="toc"> +<tr><td align='left'></td><td align='right'>PAGE</td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>THE SHOEMAKER COLLECTION OF EARLY PENNSYLVANIA AND OTHER FIREARMS AND EDGED WEAPONS. +RIFLES, MUSKETS AND OTHER SHOULDER WEAPONS.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_1">1</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>PISTOLS AND REVOLVERS.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_12">12</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>THE SETH NELSON GROUP OF EARLY PENNSYLVANIA HUNTING EQUIPMENT.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_19">19</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>EDGED WEAPONS, POLEARMS, CLUBS, ETC.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>ACCESSORIES, ETC.</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_31">31</a></td></tr> +<tr><td align='left'>A PARTIAL CATALOGUE OF THE PIPER COLLECTION. (ALTOONA, PA.)</td><td align='right'><a href="#Page_38">38</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + + + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> +<p class="figcenter" style="width: 150px;"> +<img src="images/image003.png" width="150" height="179" alt="" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2>INTRODUCTION</h2> + + +<p>For years this writer's aim was to visualize +the armed Pennsylvanian of earlier days; how he +went forth to fight his Indian foe, to slay the +bison, moose, elk and smaller game, and on his +expeditions to the fields of love: where his firearms +and edged weapons originated. To create +the living man his arms must be secured, and +gradually the present collection was assembled. +And he lived again, dark, grim, bearded, the +spirit of lofty pines and hemlocks among which +he spent his days, always plotting to kill something. +Many of the arms, if they could speak, +what tales of war, the chase, and love adventure +they could tell! The Pennsylvania woodsman +was filled with the romance of slaughter, a heritage +of mingled Continental origins, Huguenot, +Spanish, Portuguese, Swiss, Waldensian, Levantine, +with the strains of Ulster Scot, Alsatian, +Palatine, Hollander and Moravian, cooling +cross currents in his veins. No wonder that +the women of this blended race were the most +darkly beautiful in the world, and a group of +the curious edged weapons they carried to destroy +men who annoyed them might well be the +subject of another separate collection. But the +arms stacked in silent panoply, or the daggers, +dirks and powder flasks, would not suffice to +give the collection the answer to the questions +it involved. Along with a group of daring Alpinists +to "Restless Oaks" came H. Beam +Piper, of Altoona, Pa., a modern master-of-arms, +who patiently set to work to describe the collection +from its oldest to its newest examples. As +the results of his intelligent energy and research +the following catalogue has been prepared which +gives us the skeleton figure of the armed Pennsylvania +mountain man, from the frontier days +until later and more prosaic times ensued. While +many of the arms listed are in imperfect condition +and some of the more important ones are +lacking, they give the idea of his times. Other +pieces of later periods, and a few of foreign use, +are included for purposes of comparison. To +these are added Mr. Piper's catalogue of his +own collection, all in perfect order, to show similar +types of weapons at their best. While, as +stated, there are many specimens missing, these +vacancies emphasize the wide range of weapons +used by the old-time Pennsylvanians. The frequent +wars kept bringing new types of arms into +the wilderness and new ideas for weapons +among the woodsmen themselves, and this was +most noteworthy after the Civil War, which was +also the end of the grand romantic period of the +Pennsylvania wilderness. The mountaineer of +Pennsylvania was of martial blood, his ancestors +had fought in every state of Continental +Europe—and the science of armorer was his +birthright. David Lewis, the "Galloping Jack" +or highwayman of Central Pennsylvania, used +new pistols every year, and weapons which he is +said to have carried are as plentiful as Ole Bull's +violins. The frontiersmen of British origins always +named their favorite rifles "My Friend," +"My Brother," "Sure Shot," "Confidence," +"Never Fail," "Carry My Wish," "Kill Deer," +and "Kill Buck," and cherished them almost as +living things. Many of them camped out at the +wayside gunshops until a specially ordered +weapon was begun and finished, so as to supervise +every detail of its fabrication. Quaint and +full of historic lore were these mystic wayside +shrines of arms, which are alas with a few exceptions +no more. Billy de Shera's on Larry's +Creek near Jersey Shore instilled the love of +arms in several generations of mountain boys, +and the last gunshops in existence, those of Seth +Nelson, Jr., near Round Island, Clinton County, +and David C. Busler, near Collomsville, Lycoming +County, have had arms loving pilgrims of +note from all over the State to learn the last +dying secrets of the Kentucky rifles, which, despite +their name, were mostly made in Pennsylvania. +Often the backwoods arms enthusiast +would insist that the shutters be closed and the +smith's work carried on by candle-light, lest a +passing hechs cast a glance upon the barrel, +which would ever afterward be deprived of the +power to kill. The proud owner of a cherished +gun would never leave it near a hechs, lest she +run her cold trembling hand along the barrel +and forever destroy its accuracy. There were +also spells or pow-wowing to make a gun shoot +perfectly, and these were put on before a foe was +to be removed, and more especially with the +heavy rifles used at shooting matches. Needles +and papers written full of incantations were +slipped under the barrels where they joined the +stocks to keep away the witches. The writer +has seen Robert Covenhoven's rifle with thirteen +notches on the under side of the stock. His +scalping-knife has seven notches, where this +merciless scalp-hunter enumerated his red victims +prior to collecting the scalp bounty at +Harris' Ferry. The Covenhoven rifle was latterly +owned by the old deer-hunter Miller Day, +of English Centre, Lycoming County, but is now +in Philadelphia, while the knife is at the James +V. Brown Library, Williamsport, together with +his Ketland pistol. As symbols of a bolder and +broader day the firearms of backwoods Pennsylvania +will always exercise a peculiar charm, +typifying as they do the period of trackless forests, +Indians, panthers, wolves, unbridled romance. +Also, that strangely picturesque period of +the Civil War, when the sharp-shooting Pennsylvania +mountain boys (and older ones) went +forth to snip; for did not Jake Karstetter, of +Sugar Valley, Clinton County, enlist as 37 when +he was 57 and compass the death of seven Confederate +general officers? Notched on the walnut +stock of his favorite weapon, the work of +Henry Barner, a wayside Sugar Valley gunsmith, +were seven sets of minute carvings in the form +of collar insignias in all the grades from a Lieutenant +General to a Lieutenant Colonel. And +when they led him haltered through the streets +of Richmond they labelled him "a wild Yankee +from the North," because of his unshorn hair +and beard, which he swore he would not cut +until he had "set Jeff Davis cold." It is a pity +that the science of ancient arms is not more +popular in inland Pennsylvania, and that more +of the curious specimens of arms have not been +retained, but were allowed to be shipped away +to collectors elsewhere before their local value +was recognized. It is with a hope that it may +stimulate other collectors at home to assemble +ancient weapons before it is too late that this +catalogue has been published. It is as a fragment, +and not as a complete collection, but it +puts before the reader the picture of an arms +loving race, in the glorious ante-mollycoddle +age, which was the golden age of Pennsylvania +manhood. But in truth there has been very +little, if any, decline, when one thinks of the +valor of the boys of the 28th, the 79th and other +outfits where Pennsylvanians were most in evidence +in the World War. Many of these had old +Civil War grandfathers, who could tell of Fredericksburg +or Petersburg, of how earlier they +barked squirrels on tall hardwood trees, or shot +into the flocks of wild pigeons "which darkened +the sun" in their great flights. And to welcome +in the "apostolic succession" of arms new lovers +among our boys, even the least of them, this +collection stands catalogued, thanks to Mr. +Piper's perseverance. It is an invitation and +appeal to carry on all that is boldest, bravest +and best of that fearless company that bore +their spears along the dark warpaths of obscurity, +and stacked them on the campgrounds of +eternal night.</p> + +<p class="author"> +<span class="smcap">Henry W. Shoemaker.</span></p> +<p>"Restless Oaks,"<br /> +McElhattan, Pa., July 30, 1927.<br /> +</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> +<p class="figcenter" style="width: 400px;"> +<img src="images/image004.png" width="400" height="167" alt="" title="" /> +</p> + +<h2> +THE SHOEMAKER COLLECTION OF EARLY PENNSYLVANIA<br /> +AND OTHER FIREARMS AND EDGED WEAPONS.</h2> +<h3>RIFLES, MUSKETS AND OTHER SHOULDER WEAPONS.</h3> + + +<p>1. EXTREMELY HEAVY SHARPSHOOTER'S OR TARGET RIFLE.<span class="long">L. 52-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Full length stock with small cheek-piece and +flattened at muzzle for shooting from a rest. +Weight, about 40 lbs. .50 Cal. Double set triggers. +Rare. Flintlock. Made by Pennebacker, +Berks County.</p> + +<p>2. PERCUSSION TARGET RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 47-3/4"</span></p> + +<p>Octagon barrel, half stock, small brass patch-box, +brass and German silver mountings. Peep-and-globe +sights, rear sight missing. Fitted +with false muzzle for loading. Lock marked +"Warranted". About .38 cal. Complete with tin +box containing all original accessories, mould, +bullet-starter, patch cutter, combination screwdriver +and nipple wrench, patches, tow for cleaning, +etc. Rare with original accessories. This +is the type of gun used at the old-time "turkey +shoots." Made in Berks County, for John Lebo, +of Clinton County.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span></p> + +<p>3. DOUBLE BREECH-LOADING SHOTGUN. <span class="long">L. 48"</span></p> + +<p>Side-lever action. Fitted with rifle sights for +shooting round balls. Mark on lock, "Wm. +Moore & Co." On barrel, "Fine Laminated +Steel". 12-bore.</p> + +<p>4. VERY SHORT PERCUSSION GUN. <span class="long">L. 36-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Full length black walnut stock. Iron ramrod. +About 60 Cal. No marks. Probably used for +hunting buffalo.</p> + +<p>5. KENTUCKY RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 57"</span></p> + +<p>Percussion. Stock originally full length, but +has been shortened 11-1/2 inches. Brass mounts +and long brass patch-box. Ramrod missing. +About .36 Cal.</p> + +<p>6. OLD AND BADLY BATTERED FOWLING PIECE. <span class="long">L. 57"</span></p> + +<p>Lock gone. A cheap gun when new.</p> + +<p>7. HEAVY KENTUCKY RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 56"</span></p> + +<p>Curley maple stock and brass mountings, including +long brass patch-box. Fairly good order.</p> + +<p>8. SMALL-BORE PERCUSSION FOWLING PIECE. <span class="long">L. 59"</span></p> + +<p>This gun is of the cheapest sort, with painted +stock of some soft wood. Guns of this kind were +sold by Indian traders and by country merchants<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span> +to farmers' boys and others unable to afford better +arms. Due to the almost uniform abuse +which these weapons received, this specimen, +which is in good condition, is somewhat of a +rarity. Mark on lock, "Henry Parker, Warranted".</p> + +<p>9. U. S. ARMY MUSKET, 1822 MODEL. <span class="long">L. 57-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Altered to percussion by Government system +of screwing on new breech. Mexican and Civil +War service possible. Good order.</p> + +<p>10. DOUBLE OVER-AND-UNDER PERCUSSION RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 47-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Rigid barrels and two locks. No marks. Ramrod +and trigger-guard missing. Small round +patch-box, and German silver figure of spread +eagle inset in cheek piece.</p> + +<p>11. SHORT PERCUSSION RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 49"</span></p> + +<p>This rifle is of the type used on the plains, +period of 1845-'50 and in Pennsylvania period of +1850-90. No marks. Long brass patch-box. +About .44 Cal. Fairly good condition.</p> + +<p>12. SHORT KENTUCKY RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 48-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Stock has been broken and repaired several +times and the whole gun is crudely made and +was evidently the work of an unskilled local +gunsmith. Without doubt, this is an authentic<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> +Pennsylvania Mountain relic. Now a smooth-bore.</p> + +<p>13. CUT-DOWN KENTUCKY RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 45"</span></p> + +<p>Barrel has been smooth-bored and stock +shortened to half-length. Rear sight of peculiar +and artistic design. This was at one time a very +fine gun, and has several interesting features.</p> + +<p>14. U. S. ARMY MUSKET, MODEL OF 1822. <span class="long">L. 57-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Has been varnished all over and is in good +condition, but hammer is missing.</p> + +<p>15. PERCUSSION KENTUCKY RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 52"</span></p> + +<p>Brass mounted, with considerable brass and +silver inlay. Good condition. Maker's name illegible, +but "Philadelphia", on lock can be easily +made out. Probably a Tryon.</p> + +<p>16. SPRINGFIELD MUSKET. <span class="long">L. 55"</span></p> + +<p>Model of 1861, caliber .58, percussion. Marks +on lock, "U. S. Springfield. 1862." Good condition, +with original bayonet. Gift of General F. +D. Beary, The Adjutant General, N. G. P., Harrisburg, +Pa.</p> + +<p>17. TWO U. S. SPRINGFIELD ARMY RIFLES. <span class="long">L. 52"</span></p> + +<p>Model of 1884. Fitted with ramrod bayonets.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> +In the best of condition, like new. Gift of Gen'l +F. D. Beary.</p> + +<p>17A. Another, which has seen considerable +service. Formerly the property of Jacob Bierly, +a famous early Pennsylvania hunter.</p> + +<p>18. KENTUCKY RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 55"</span></p> + +<p>Stock shortened to half-length and smooth-bored. +The maker of this gun imported his lock +from England, as it is stamped "London, Warranted". +Percussion.</p> + +<p>19. U. S. MUSKET, 1822 MODEL. <span class="long">L. 53"</span></p> + +<p>Altered to percussion by a rare and rather +crude civilian method, and barrel shortened to +the end of the forestock. Evidently used by +some mountaineer soldier and retained at the +end of his military service as a sporting arm. A +Kentucky type rear sight has been added and +other changes have been made. <i>This gun is not +reliable as a source of information on U. S. military +arms</i>, owing to its numerous alterations.</p> + +<p>20. GERMAN-AMERICAN TARGET RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 45"</span></p> + +<p>Beautifully checkered stock, octagon barrel. +No ramrod, nor is the gun provided with fittings +for one. In the best of condition. Almost new. +This gun was made for use by a member of some +early German "Scheutzen" rifle club, period of +1855-'75. Mark on lock, "Rein, New York".<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span></p> + +<p>21. DOUBLE OVER-AND-UNDER RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 43"</span></p> + +<p>Patch-box gone, and rear sight not original +and badly used. No marks.</p> + +<p>22. FRENCH CHASSEPOT ARMY RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 51"</span></p> + +<p>Marks, "Manufacture Chatellerault. <i>Mle</i> +1866". Almost perfect. May be a Franco-Prussian +War weapon.</p> + +<p>23. GERMAN BOAR RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 43"</span></p> + +<p>Heavy octagon barrel, sliding wooden cover +box in stock containing worm, sling-swivels, bayonet-stud. +This gun has a most excellent adjustable +rear sight, and is in splendid order. +Caliber, about .70.</p> + +<p>24. REMINGTON ARMY RIFLE. <span class="long">L. </span></p> + +<p>Rider system action. .50-70. Good.</p> + +<p>25. U. S. KRAG RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 49"</span></p> + +<p>1898 Model. Five shots, .30-40 Cal. New +condition.</p> + +<p>26. REMINGTON CARBINE, CAL., .50-70. <span class="long">L. 37-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>27. SHARP'S CIVIL WAR CARBINE. <span class="long">L. 39"</span></p> + +<p>Model of 1859. Good. With Lawrence primer +magazine and patch-box in stock.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span></p> + +<p>28. DOUBLE OVER-AND-UNDER RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 49"</span></p> + +<p>Good order. Round patch-box. German silver +figure of deer inlaid on cheek-piece. No marks. +Good.</p> + +<p>29. PERCUSSION BUFFALO RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 32"</span></p> + +<p>Some illegible lettering on barrel, which is octagon +and extremely heavy. Ramrod under barrel. +Stock extends only to breech and is inlaid +with German silver. Extremely rare. This +type was used on the western plains, 1840-'55.</p> + +<p>30. U. S. FLINTLOCK MUSKET. <span class="long">L. 58"</span></p> + +<p>Model of 1798. Cheek-piece hollowed into +stock. Complete with flint and ramrod and in fine +shooting condition. Mark, "J. Henry, Phila."</p> + +<p>31. FLINTLOCK KENTUCKY RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 56-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Curley maple stock. Brass mounts, including +long patch-box. Original striped ramrod, which +has been re-tipped with an exploded pistol cartridge. +This gun has been restored, though so +skillfully as to pass for original condition. Fine +shooting order. Mark on lockplate, "Tryon, Philada."</p> + +<p>32. U. S. 1822 MODEL ARMY MUSKET. <span class="long">L. 57-1/4"</span></p> + +<p>Altered to percussion, apparently by civilian<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span> +gunsmith. Good condition.</p> + +<p>33. DOUBLE PERCUSSION SHOTGUN. <span class="long">L. 46-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>About 12-bore. Back action locks. No marks. +Has been abused.</p> + +<p>34. DOUBLE PERCUSSION SHOTGUN. <span class="long">L. 46"</span></p> + +<p>Stock cracked and both locks and one nipple +gone.</p> + +<p>35. PERCUSSION KENTUCKY RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 55"</span></p> + +<p>Inoperative and both sights gone, otherwise +good. No marks.</p> + +<p>36. "MULE-EAR" DOUBLE SHOTGUN. <span class="long">L. 49"</span></p> + +<p>Superposed barrels. Side action lock. Two +ramrods, both original. Working order. 12-bore. +Very rare. No marks.</p> + +<p>37. OVER-AND-UNDER RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 50-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>One lock, barrels revolving by hand. Mark +on lock, "Jos. Golgher, Phila." On plate opposite +lock, "I. L. Beck." This rifle was once the property +of Imanuel Beck, a noted Sugar Valley hunter, +and has probably killed much big game. A +rare and historic piece, in the best of condition. +(These double rifles with revolving barrels are +much rarer than the rigid type.) This gun was +not made by Golcher, as he made and furnished<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> +to other makers more locks than he made rifles. +It was his custom to stamp his name on the barrels +of his own guns.</p> + +<p>38. WINCHESTER REPEATING RIFLE. 30-in. Barrel.</p> + +<p>Model of 1873. .38-40 Cal. Good order.</p> + +<p>39. U. S. ARMY MUSKET. <span class="long">L. 55"</span></p> + +<p>1808 Model. This specimen has been fitted +with a Civil War type rear sight, evidently having +been issued in 1862, when arms were scarce. +Initials "L. H." cut in stock, while brass plate +is marked "J. E. S." Sling-strap not original +and jaw-screw is obviously home-made, with +square head. Several inches have been cut off +of barrel. This gun is not reliable as a source +of data on U. S. military arms. A curious +mountaineer gun, in fine order.</p> + +<p>40. "ZULU" SHOTGUN. <span class="long">L. 50-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Made from old French army rifle. These guns +were sold in great quantities to the poorer farmers +in Pennsylvania. In the stock is a small +piece of wood which was blessed by the French +priests and placed in the stock at the arsenal. It +was supposed to insure accuracy. A curious +outcropping of medieval superstition in modern +times.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></p> + +<p>41. CIVIL WAR AUSTRIAN PURCHASE CARBINE. <span class="long">L. 30-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>"During the first part of the Civil War the +United States purchased a great quantity of +these arms, and before their worthlessness became +apparent a considerable number was issued. +The calibre of most of them was .75; the rifling +was very deep; the recoil and trajectory were abnormal, +and accuracy of shooting was conspicuous +by absence."—Sawyer, "Our Rifles." Page +235.</p> + +<p>42. MOORISH SNAPHAUNCE GUN. <span class="long">L. 62-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Captured from Riff tribesmen early in 1920. +A fine specimen of its type, inlaid with ivory and +showing native repair-work. This is a genuine +snaphaunce, not to be confused with the Spanish +or Moorish Miguelet or outside-lock flintlock. +Rare.</p> + +<p>43. SHARP & HANKINS CIVIL WAR CARBINE. <span class="long">L. 39"</span></p> + +<p>This is the Navy type, though the leather +jacket is missing from the barrel. Rare.</p> + +<p>44. VOLCANIC CARBINE. <span class="long">L. 35"</span></p> + +<p>The forerunner of the Henry and the Winchester. +Finely polished walnut stock and engraved +brass receiver, the latter showing traces<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> +of silver plating. Used hollow-bore bullets which +contained powder and cap. Good condition and +excessively rare.</p> + +<p>45. U. S. 1863 MODEL ARMY MUSKET. <span class="long">L. 55"</span></p> + +<p>Good condition, with sling-strap.</p> + +<p>46. LONG FLINTLOCK FOWLING PIECE.</p> + +<p>Good condition, but lacks ramrod.</p> + +<p>47. ORIENTAL FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS. <span class="long">L. 21"</span></p> + +<p>Some traces of checkering on stock and damascening +on barrel, otherwise plain.</p> + +<p>48. ORIENTAL FLINTLOCK BLUNDERBUSS. <span class="long">L. 21"</span></p> + +<p>A much more ornate piece than the preceeding. +The stock is carved and the metal parts engraved. +Dummy ramrod carved into stock. +English lock.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></p> +<h3>PISTOLS AND REVOLVERS.</h3> + +<p>49. DOUBLE BARREL IRISH PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 6-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Superposed barrels, revolving by hand. Disappearing +trigger. Mark:—"Kavanaugh, Dublin".</p> + +<p>50. MARSTON 3-BARREL PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 7"</span></p> + +<p>Breech-loading, .32 calibre. Indicator on +right side of frame. Inoperative, but in good +condition otherwise.</p> + +<p>51. FIVE-SHOT MANHATTAN ARMS CO. PEPPERBOX. <span class="long">L. 5-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>A close replica of the Allen. In excellent +condition. .31 Cal.</p> + +<p>52. SMALL PHILADELPHIA DERRINGER. <span class="long">L. </span></p> + +<p>Checkered grip, cap-box in butt. A facsimile +of the pistol used by J. Wilkes Booth to +assassinate Abraham Lincoln.</p> + +<p>53. COOPER FIVE-SHOT REVOLVER. <span class="long">L. 10"</span></p> + +<p>Percussion. Double action, .31 Cal. This is +the early Pittsburg revolver, not to be confused<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> +with arms of the same type made at Philadelphia. +Rare. Resembles the Colt 1849 Model, except +that trigger is in center of trigger-guard.</p> + +<p>54. PECULIAR DOUBLE ACTION REVOLVER. <span class="long">L. 5"</span></p> + +<p>Percussion. Similar in action to a pepperbox. +Marked "Ell's Patent." The cataloguer has never +before seen a pistol of this type. Good condition. +.31 Cal. Purchased in a Philadelphia +pawn-shop, and said to be a favorite arm of the +Negroes in that city at one time.</p> + +<p>55. REID'S "MY FRIEND" KNUCKLE-DUSTER.</p> + +<p>Seven shots, .22 Cal. Good order, except that +cylinder does not revolve.</p> + +<p>56. ANOTHER.</p> + +<p>Similar except for a slight difference of engraving +and a catch under cylinder.</p> + +<p>57. UNDERHAMMER PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 11-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Has seen rough service. No marks.</p> + +<p>58. DOUBLE BARREL PERCUSSION PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 8"</span></p> + +<p>Broken, rusty and with all working parts except +one spring missing. Barrels side by side.</p> + +<p>59. TINY .22 PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 4-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>One of the lightest pistols the cataloguer has<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span> +ever seen. These ineffectual weapons are sold in +large numbers on the waterfront of Genoa, where +the owner acquired this specimen.</p> + +<p>60. HEAVY DOUBLE BARREL PERCUSSION PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 11-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Superposed barrels, two hammers and nipples. +Bronze frame and steel barrels. About +10-bore. Excellent condition. Evidently French, +though it was bought in a Philadelphia pawn-shop.</p> + +<p>61. DERRINGER POCKET RIFLE. <span class="long">L. (over all) 28"</span></p> + +<p>Shoulder-stock attached. Quite similar in +design to the ordinary pocket Derringer, but has +a long barrel (octagon), a ramrod and ramrod +rib. Peep rear sight. Front sight missing. Very +rare. In good condition.</p> + +<p>62. PAIR OF ENGLISH POCKET PISTOLS. <span class="long">L. 6"</span></p> + +<p>Silver butt-plates, silver lion-masque butt-caps, +much of original blueing remains. In the +best of condition. Mark, "Doody". From Krider's +Gunshop, Philadelphia.</p> + +<p>63. OLD PINFIRE REVOLVER <span class="long">L. 7-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>64. FINE SILVER-MOUNTED TURKISH PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 18"</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p> + +<p>Barrel and lock of English manufacture, the +later having a sliding safety and being stamped +"Mortimer", but the rest is Turkish. Stock is of +some dark, hard Oriental wood, probably olive, +and is covered with fine silver-wire inlay. All +mountings are of silver, beautifully sculptured +and engraved and bear curious Turkish hallmarks. +As the ramrods for these pistols were +carried about the neck to facilitate loading on +horseback, they were frequently made without +ramrods attached. This pistol, like the following +one, is furnished with a dummy or imitation +rod. English proof-marks on barrel. Gold +breech-band. In the best of possible condition +and a really beautiful specimen. From the Austin +collection.</p> + +<p>65. SILVER-MOUNTED ARABIAN FLINTLOCK PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 16"</span></p> + +<p>Mountings entirely of silver. Stock covered +with silver inlay in wire, dot and leaf-and-flower +design. Arabian armorer's marks in gold on barrel. +Fine. From the Austin collection.</p> + +<p>66. FRENCH ARMY PISTOL, MODEL OF 1777. <span class="long">L. 13-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Flintlock. Calibre, 11/16 inch. Mark on lock, +"Mauberge". This pistol may have come to this +country with Lafayette's expedition. It has been +neatly though incorrectly restored and is hence<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span> +unreliable as a source of information.</p> + +<p>67. COLT PERCUSSION REVOLVER, CAL. .31. <span class="long">L. 10"</span></p> + +<p>1849 Model, five shot, bright finish, trigger-guard +and back-strap silvered. Mark, "Address +Samuel Colt, etc." Note the absence of title +"Col." in mark. Rare with this omission. Good +order.</p> + +<p>68. U. S. PERCUSSION ARMY PISTOL, Model of 1842. <span class="long">L. 14"</span></p> + +<p>Marks on lockplate illegible, but enough can +be deciphered to show that it was made by H. +Aston, of Middleton, Conn. Ramrod not original, +and swivel is missing, but otherwise the pistol is +in good shooting order.</p> + +<p>69. UNUSUAL SET OF DEVISME REVOLVERS.</p> + +<p>Contained in ebony case, 13" × 7", lined with +purple velvet. Fitted compartments, containing +a large six-shot belt revolver of Devisme's invention, +about .45 calibre, a seven-shot .22 calibre +Smith & Wesson pocket revolver and accessories +and ammunition. On the inside of the lid, in +gold letters, "Devisme, 56, Boulevard des Italiens, +Paris." This is a most unusual combination of a +belt and a pocket revolver in the same case. The +little pistol is marked with the name, address and<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span> +patent dates of the Smith & Wesson company +and also with "Claudin, Brevete a Paris, Boulevard +des Italiens, 38". Extremely rare and in +almost new condition.</p> + +<p>70. PAIR OF PERCUSSION HOLSTER PISTOLS. <span class="long">L. 13"</span></p> + +<p>Silver name-plates and key-plates, beautifully +checkered grips, twist steel barrels and ramrod +ribbs, swivel ramrods. Barrels are extraordinarily +heavy, of about .50 calibre. Smooth bore. +Spur trigger-guards and horn tipped fore-ends. +Mark, on lockplates and barrels, "Champion, Chichester." +These pistols were apparently at one +time cased, for they are accompanied by cleaning +rod with detachable head, nipple-wrench, bullet +mould and combination powder and cap flask. +All in new condition.</p> + +<p>71. SINGLE-SHOT BREECH-LOADING PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 13"</span></p> + +<p>The only one of the sort that the cataloguer +has ever seen. Probably an inventor's model. +No marks anywhere on it. Stud on the left side +of barrel opens the piece when pushed forward. +About .40 cal.</p> + +<p>72. U. S. ARMY LUGER AUTOMATIC. <span class="long">L. 9"</span></p> + +<p>Calibre, 7.65 mm. A thousand of these arms +were purchased by the Government in 1901 for +experimental purposes, with the view of making<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span> +them standard army equipment. They were +found to be deficient in stopping power, due to +their small calibre, and were for the most part +sold to Bannerman & Co., of New York. Differences +from the ordinary commercial Luger are +as follows:—one inch longer barrel, grip of black +walnut, U. S. coat of arms stamped on receiver, and +thumb-safety is reversed. Curiously enough, this +particular pistol was purchased from a gunsmith by +W. Fall Gardner, of New York City, while at +Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1920, and while with the +American Army of Occupation. It is interesting +to speculate how the weapon found its way +back to the country of its origin. Rare.</p> + +<p>73. BOOTJACK "PISTOL". <span class="long">L. 8"</span></p> + +<p>A cast brass folding bootjack, resembling an +old style percussion pocket pistol when closed. +Rare.</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="THE_SETH_NELSON_GROUP_OF_EARLY_PENNSYLVANIA_HUNTING_EQUIPMENT" id="THE_SETH_NELSON_GROUP_OF_EARLY_PENNSYLVANIA_HUNTING_EQUIPMENT"></a>THE SETH NELSON GROUP OF EARLY PENNSYLVANIA HUNTING EQUIPMENT.</h2> + + +<p>Seth Iredell Nelson and his son, Seth Nelson, +Jr., have long been regarded as two of the most +renowned and resourceful big game hunters and +armorers of Central Pennsylvania. At their +home and hunting lodge on the Sinnemahoning +at the foot of Altar Rock, famed in Indian lore, +they maintained a gunshop and forge, making +or repairing many of their own guns, knives, ammunition, +etc., as well as their axes, saws, cant-hooks, +farming implements and the like. Many +of their choicest specimens are now in Dr. Henry +C. Mercer's Museum at Doylestown, Pa. Seth +Iredell Nelson was born in Potter County, Pa. +in 1809, the descendant of a Scotch "kramer" +who went to Germany in the 17th Century with +the ancestor of Col. John Hay, author of "Little +Breeches" and Theodore Roosevelt's great Secretary +of State. Nelson migrated to Clinton County +in 1840, the journey being made in pole-boats +down Kettle Creek and up the West Branch of +the Susquehanna to the mouth of the Sinnemahoning, +and settling in a community still inhabited +by the Seneca Indians. He became known +as the King Hunter of the Sinnemahoning, his<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span> +game book showing hundreds of panthers, wolves +and elk and thousands of deer, bears, and wildcats, +and other animals which he captured during +his long career in the Pennsylvania big game +fields. Seth Iredell Nelson died in 1905, and is +buried on top of Karthaus Mountain, overlooking +the one-time hunting paradise where for nearly a +century he was the supreme ruler. Seth Nelson, +Jr. was born in Potter County in 1838 and was +brought to Three Runs, Clinton County, by his +parents two years later. He is today a handsome +old man, with keen blue eyes, regular features, +long hair and snow white beard, hale and +hearty at four score and ten. He accompanied his +father on most of his great hunts and was his +devoted and able assistant in his gunshop and +forge. Even in late years he has turned out guns +complete—"lock, stock and barrel" and hunting +knives of unusual skill and workmanship.</p> + +<p>74. HUNTING KNIFE. <span class="long">L. 10"</span></p> + +<p>Staghorn handle. This is of similar design, +as, though of much later date, than the scalping +knives used by such Eighteenth Century frontiersmen +as Covenhoven, the Groves, Van Campen, +Van Gundy and others. Mounted in pewter.</p> + +<p>75. SETH NELSON'S SENECA TYPE AXE. <span class="long">L. 13"</span></p> + +<p>This type of axe or tomahawk was designed<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span> +by John Smoke, one of the last Seneca Indians +residing in Pennsylvania. Initials punched on +blade, "S. N." Double edge. This sort of tomahawk +is now sold commercially under the name of +"Nessmuk Axe".</p> + +<p>76. HUNTING KNIFE. <span class="long">L. 11-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Staghorn handle. Pewter mounts.</p> + +<p>77. SMALL LEAD-LADLE. <span class="long">L. 15"</span></p> + +<p>Used for running bullets. Made and used by +Seth Nelson, Jr.</p> + +<p>78. LEAD LADLE. <span class="long">L. 19"</span></p> + +<p>A trifle more artistic in design. Also used by +Seth, Jr. Like the preceding number, this is of +the period of 1855-'75.</p> + +<p>79. LARGE LEAD-LADLE. <span class="long">L. 20"</span></p> + +<p>Crudely made. Former property of Seth +Nelson, Sr., the father of the maker of Nos. 77 +and 78. Period 1830-'50.</p> + +<p>80. POWDER HORN AND BULLET POUCH.</p> + +<p>The 12-inch horn is still fitted with the original +tip-plug and contains a quantity of rifle-powder, +of about FFF texture. These powder-and-bullet +sets are now much rarer than the +rifles with which they were used. A fine old pioneer +piece.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></p> + +<p>81. SMALL LEAD-HANDLED DAGGER. <span class="long">L. 7-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Given to Seth Nelson, Sr., by Bill Long, a +famous Clearfield County hunter.</p> + +<p>82. LITTLE ONE-PIECE COPPER KNIFE. <span class="long">L. 5"</span></p> + +<p>Given to Col. Shoemaker by Seth Nelson, Jr., +to illustrate the earliest type of pocket-knife used +by the frontiersmen. Of Indian manufacture and +of the size carried by young girls for general use +and, at a pinch, for protection. Made by John +Smoke for his daughter. The Pennsylvania German +Gipsies called this sort of knife a "schlor". +A similar knife but larger, made by Smoke was +sent by Col. Shoemaker, to Dr. H. C. Mercer, +Doylestown, Pa., 1920.</p> + +<p>83. DOUBLE-EDGED FOLDING DAGGER. <span class="long">L. (open) 8-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Given to Col. Shoemaker by Seth Nelson to +illustrate the next type of frontier pocket-knife.</p> + +<p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p> +<h3>EDGED WEAPONS, POLEARMS, CLUBS, ETC.</h3> + +<p>84. SPANISH OR ITALIAN LEFT-HAND DAGGER. <span class="long">L. 20"</span></p> + +<p>Used to parry sword-thrusts in rapier fencing. +XVI or XVII Century.</p> + +<p>85. IMPROVISED DAGGER MADE FROM TABLE-KNIFE. <span class="long">L. 7"</span></p> + +<p>Blade has been ground down to dagger shape +and guard has been added by twisting wire about +hilt. Used by an Italian in Williamsport to +murder his step-daughter.</p> + +<p>86. BOWIE KNIFE. <span class="long">L. 10"</span></p> + +<p>Old and rather crudely made. Wooden grip. +Has seen Civil War service and is believed to +have been taken from the body of a Confederate +soldier.</p> + +<p>87. DAGGER. <span class="long">L. 12-1/4"</span></p> + +<p>Apparently home-made. Hilt made from the +handle of an old Barlow pocket knife. Found in +pocket of Lute Shaffer, murderer of Colby family, +Clinton County, 1888.</p> + +<p>88. TWO BUTCHER-KNIVES.</p> + +<p>Crudely made, with wide blades and rough +wooden handles. Used to dismember the body of +a girl who was killed in a family quarrel. This<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span> +was the "Pear Tree Murder", told of in Col. +Shoemaker's "More Allegheny Episodes", Ch. II.</p> + +<p>89. PENNSYLVANIA MOUNTAIN HUNTING KNIFE. <span class="long">L. 13"</span></p> + +<p>Made and used by John E. Smith, a famous +Clearfield County hunter of the middle Nineteenth +Century. Staghorn handle and pewter +mountings.</p> + +<p>90. SPANISH BULL-FIGHTER'S PUNTILLA. <span class="long">L. 9"</span></p> + +<p>This is the matador's weapon of last resort, +to be used when his espada fails. Spear-pointed. +Gift of Count San Juan de Violada, of Madrid, 1916.</p> + +<p>91. TWO SPANISH PICADOR'S LANCE-POINTS. <span class="long">L. 8"</span></p> + +<p>One bears label marked "Union de Picadores +de Toros. Mayo, 1918. 75. Union de Criadores +de Toros de Lidia. Delegacion del Norte."</p> + +<p>92. ITALIAN ALPINE POACHER'S KNIFE. <span class="long">L. (open) 12"</span></p> + +<p>Folds into horn handle. Has the peculiarly +Italian design of ornamentation, criss-cross lines +on the ricasso. Given to Col. Shoemaker by a former +Swiss soldier at Visp, 1926, who took it from +poacher on Swiss-Italian frontier about 1860.</p> + +<p>93. ROMAN JAVELIN HEAD. <span class="long">L. 11"</span></p> + +<p>Found in excavation for subway in London.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></p> + +<p>94. TWO BASQUE FOLDING KNIVES. <span class="long">L. (open) 8"</span></p> + +<p>Broad, razor-like blades, folding into horn +handles. Both are stamped "E. Pradel, Acier +Fins."</p> + +<p>95. TWO SPANISH LADIES' KNIVES. <span class="long">L. (open) 7-1/4 and 5-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Horn handles, broad, thin blades which lock +in place when open. Of the type carried by +Raquel Meller, when singing her songs of disappointed +Spanish love. (Secured at Segovia, 1926.)</p> + +<p>96. BASQUE MAQUILLA. <span class="long">L. 35". Length of maquilla proper, 33-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>The Basque national weapon. In appearance, +it resembles an ordinary walking stick with a +plaited leather wrist-thong and grip. Brass-mounted +and tipped with a heavy steel ferrule. +When the handle is unscrewed, there remains a +stout wood shaft, tipped with a sharp steel point. +A really dangerous weapon, in spite of its innocent +appearance, and extremely rare in this +country.</p> + +<p>97. DAGGER CANE. <span class="long">L. 36-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Ebony. 11-1/4-inch blade, slightly engraved. +About 1830.</p> + +<p>98. PAIR OF CUBAN MACHETES. <span class="long">L. 31"</span></p> + +<p>In embossed leather sheaths. Horn handles.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> + +<p>99. MODEL OF INDIAN SLING. <span class="long">L. 21"</span></p> + +<p>Made of sassafras wood by Jesse Logan, a grand-nephew +of the great chief James Logan for Col. +Shoemaker, in 1915, as a specimen of an early Indian +weapon. Sling-stone in place.</p> + +<p>100. POCKET KNIFE CARRIED BY JESSE LOGAN. (1828-1917.) <span class="long">L. 5-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Originally a very cheap knife, of the sort sold +by itinerant peddlers.</p> + +<p>101. GERMAN HUNTING KNIFE, MIDDLE XIX CENT. <span class="long">L. 12"</span></p> + +<p>Beautiful bronze hilt, ornamented in relief +with guns, horns and other implements of the +chase. Shell guard. Boar-head pommel. Quillions +shaped like deer feet. Double-edged blade, +in original sheath.</p> + +<p>102. COLLINS HEAVY HUNTING KNIFE. <span class="long">L. 16-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Vulcanite grips, quillions and elephant-head +pommel of some white composition metal. In +ornately stamped leather sheath. Cheaply made, +but of good steel and a serviceable weapon.</p> + +<p>103. MANDAN TOMAHAWK. <span class="long">L. 10" W. 8-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Brought from South Dakota by a returning +U. S. soldier, about 1870, who obtained it from a +fallen burial platform, along with the skeleton of +the Indian with whom it was placed. The remains<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span> +of the Indian are now interred on the Restless +Oaks estate.</p> + +<p>104. FRENCH HUNTING SWORD. XVIII CENT. <span class="long">L. 24"</span></p> + +<p>Staghorn handle, ornamented bronze quillions +and shell guard. Blade engraved with hunting +scenes and bears motto "Recte Faciendo Neminem +Timeas."</p> + +<p>105. GERMAN HUNTING SWORD. XVIII CENT. <span class="long">L. 26-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Gilt bronze hilt and quillions, engraved blade +bearing inscription in German. Original black +leather sheath. In the best of condition and a +high quality weapon.</p> + +<p>106. TURKISH SCIMITAR. <span class="long">L. 37-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Original scabbard with belt-sling and red-and-gilt +silk tassles. Hilt of silver, with gilt ornamentation, +scabbard tipped with silver. Fine. +From the Austin Collection.</p> + +<p>107. STRAIGHT YATAGAHN. <span class="long">L. 24"</span></p> + +<p>Tapering blade, slightly engraved, horn +handle, silver and brass mounts. Red velvet +scabbard. Probably Circassian or Cossack.</p> + +<p>108. PAIR OF FOILS. <span class="long">L. 39-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Cord-wrapped grips, ring quillions. Point of +one broken. Belgian, about 1860.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></p> + +<p>109. RHINOCEROS HORN KNOB KERRIE.</p> + +<p>South African. Probably Kafir or Zulu.</p> + +<p>110. TWO OLD SOCKET BAYONETS.</p> + +<p>111. ALL-METAL BAYONET FOR GERMAN MAUSER. <span class="long">L. 17"</span></p> + +<p>In metal sheath. No marks. Rare.</p> + +<p>112. GERMAN WORLD WAR BAYONET. <span class="long">L. 15-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>In leather sheath.</p> + +<p>113. GERMAN SAWTOOTH BAYONET. <span class="long">L. 15-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Marks indecipherable except "Solingen". +These bayonets were exhibited in this country +during the War as an evidence of German atrocity, +but they were in reality intended for wire-cutting. +Only one was issued to each squad of +infantry. For this reason they are comparatively +rare.</p> + +<p>114. BRITISH NAVAL DIRK. XVIII CENT. <span class="long">L. 17"</span></p> + +<p>Fine condition, leather sheath, ivory handle, +engraved blade, lion-masque pommel. Claimed +to have seen service in voyages against John +Paul "Jones." Called by the British "The Great +Pirate."</p> + +<p>115. MORNING STAR OR BATTLE FLAIL. XV CENT. <span class="long">L. 38"</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></p> + +<p>Large spiked ball, linked by a ten-inch chain +to a wooden shaft. A fine piece and rare. From +Austin Collection.</p> + +<p>116. NAPOLEONIC SABRE (WATERLOO)</p> + +<p>In worn leather sheath. Broken about half +way down the blade. Carried at Waterloo by a +Colonel Kaetz, of Napoleon's Belgian allies.</p> + +<p>117. TWO ASSAGAIS. RHODESIAN.</p> + +<p>From the Austin Collection.</p> + +<p>118. RHINOCEROS HIDE SHIELD, DAHOMEY.</p> + +<p>Circular and having a conical point in the +center.</p> + +<p>119. TYROLESE BEAR-SPEAR. XVII CENT. <span class="long">L. 91"</span></p> + +<p>Head original but shaft a replacement. From +the Austin Collection.</p> + +<p>120. SPANISH BEAR SPEAR. XVII CENT. <span class="long">L. 86"</span></p> + +<p>Head original, but shaft a replacement. From +the Austin Collection.</p> + +<p>121. CONFEDERATE OFFICER'S SWORD. <span class="long">L. 36-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Straight, single-edged blade, deeply grooved. +Half-basket guard, incorporating the letters "C.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span> +S." Brass mountings. Confederate arms are exceedingly +rare. Illustrated, Plate V.</p> + +<p>122. CIVIL WAR SABRE OF 1st LT. HENRY F. SHOEMAKER. <span class="long">L. 36"</span></p> + +<p>Carried during the Civil War by the father +of the present owner, while an officer in the 27th +Pennsylvania Volunteers. Blade slightly engraved, +leather-covered grip, gold and black sabre-knot.</p> + +<p>123. U. S. LATE REGULATION OFFICER'S SABRE. <span class="long">L. 36"</span></p> + +<p>Carried by Col. Shoemaker while in the Pennsylvania +National Guard. Complete with scabbard, +leather sabre-knot and leather carrying +case. Blade engraved "Henry W. Shoemaker."</p> + +<p>124. ANOTHER SIMILAR SABRE.</p> + +<p>Carried by Col. Shoemaker in the New York +National Guard.</p> + +<p>125. EQUIPMENT USED BY COL. SHOEMAKER DURING THE WORLD WAR.</p> + +<p>This includes a sabre on an old regulation +belt, a Sam Browne belt, a Colt .45 Army automatic +in an officers' type holster, a Malacca +swagger-stick, a black and gilt officer's hat cord, +a steel helmet and spurs.</p> + +<p>126. DIPLOMATIC SWORD. <span class="long">L. 38-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Carried by Col. Shoemaker while attached to<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span> +the American Legation at Lisbon. Straight, +double-edged, with a cord-effect gilded hilt and +double shell guard, one side of which is hinged. +The ricasso of the blade is gilded and the blade +is covered with arabesque work in gold and blue +for about nine inches near the hilt and bright +polished from there to the point. In general +shape, resembles the small-swords of the XVIII +Cent.</p> + +<p>127. DIPLOMATIC SWORD.</p> + +<p>Carried by Col. Shoemaker while attached to +the American Embassy at Berlin. Much similar +to the preceeding, except that the guard is ornamented +with an American eagle and the blade +is elegantly chased. Designed by Charlemagne +Tower (1848-1922), while Ambassador to Germany.</p> + + +<h3>ACCESSORIES, ETC.</h3> + +<p>128. CIVIL WAR BAYONET.</p> + +<p>With sheath and belt-hanger. Arsenal-new +condition. Gift of General F. D. Beary.</p> + +<p>129. TWO ROUNDS OF ANTI-AIRCRAFT M. G. AMMUNITION. Cal. .50</p> + +<p>Gift of General F. D. Beary.</p> + +<p>130. POWDER-HORN. <span class="long">L. 14-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Rounded plug in base, with small mushroom-shaped +filling-plug. Knife-whittled plug. Octagonal<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_32" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</a></span> +tip. Color; old ivory, shading to black at tip.</p> + +<p>131. POWDER HORN. <span class="long">L. 12-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Rounded lathe-turned plug at base, ornamented +with brass tacks. Round tip. Colors; +dark brown at tip, shading off in light brown and +gray to old ivory.</p> + +<p>132. ZINC POWDER FLASK. <span class="long">L. 7"</span></p> + +<p>Corroded with age.</p> + +<p>133. ZINC POWDER FLASK. <span class="long">L. 5"</span></p> + +<p>Pistol size.</p> + +<p>134. VERY OLD POWDER HORN. <span class="long">L. 11"</span></p> + +<p>Acorn tip, flat plug with ball-head threaded +filling-plug, old strap attached. Colors; dark +brown at tip, shading off to bright orange. This +is age-coloring, and proves the horn to be quite +old, possibly pre-Revolutionary. A fine piece.</p> + +<p>135. DATED POWDER HORN. <span class="long">L. 11"</span></p> + +<p>Knife-whittled tip, flat bottom-plug painted +red, tip-plug apparently whittled from a bit of +ramrod wood. Dated, 1816. Dated horns are +rather rare.</p> + +<p>136. POWDER HORN WITH BRASS CHARGER. <span class="long">L. 9"</span></p> + +<p>Self-measuring charger, evidently from an +old flask. Two steeples driven in sides for carrying +cord. Rare.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_33" id="Page_33">[Pg 33]</a></span></p> + +<p>137. COPPER FLASK. <span class="long">L. 6"</span></p> + +<p>Embossed with hunting scenes. Good.</p> + +<p>138. OLD PENNSYLVANIA RIFLEMAN'S POWDER HORN AND BULLET POUCH.</p> + +<p>Horn and pouch are fastened to one strap. +The horn is 16-1/2 inches in length, of a beautiful +pale green color and highly polished. Ringed tip +and rounded wooden plug. Cut into it are the initials +"E. W." In the pouch is a tin box marked +"Eley, London," containing a few caps. In fine +order throughout and very rare. It was once +the property of Major Enoch Wolford, a noted +Sugar Valley hunter.</p> + +<p>139. MOST PECULIAR OLD BULLET MOULD.</p> + +<p>Casts one conical bullet, about .40 cal., and +has a number of unique features. The cataloguer +has never seen one just like it. Evidently the +work of local gunsmith.</p> + +<p>140. TWO BULLET MOULDS.</p> + +<p>Musket size, for about an ounce ball. Illustrated, +Plate IV.</p> + +<p>141. BULLET MOULD.</p> + +<p>Crude and evidently homemade. Casts one +conical bullet. .36 Cal.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_34" id="Page_34">[Pg 34]</a></span></p> + +<p>142. CANADIAN "TIN HAT".</p> + +<p>Picked up by Col. Shoemaker between Baupaume +and Arras in May 1920. Rusty, covered +in spots with the peculiar chalk-like earth of +Northern France, all leather rotted away. Big +dent in top.</p> + +<p>143. GERMAN HELMET.</p> + +<p>Picked up at Chemin-des-Dames, France, +May, 1926, by Col. Shoemaker. Only a small part +of the chin-strap remains.</p> + +<p>144. CIVIL WAR HAND-GRENADE.</p> + +<p>Painted red and black. In appearance, somewhat +like a modern grenade.</p> + +<p>145. CIVIL WAR HAND-GRENADE, MOUNTED ON STAND <span class="long">H. 12-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Is equipped with a wooden shaft and four +cartridge-paper "feathers" to aid in throwing. +Label reads "No. 19. Grenade from Ft. Wagner. +1863. Gift of W. W. RICHIE, 1915 to +HENRY W. SHOEMAKER." On paper wing, +"Patented, Aug. 20, 1861."</p> + +<p>146. WEB CARTRIDGE BELT.</p> + +<p>For Krag rifle. Period of Spanish War.</p> + +<p>147. OLD RE-LOADING TOOL.</p> + +<p>Rusty. Calibre unknown. Possibly .38-55.</p> + +<p>148. GAS SHELL FOR 75 mm GUN. <span class="long">L. 10-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>No rotating band, as this has never been put<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_35" id="Page_35">[Pg 35]</a></span> +on, and with tin shipping head. Painted yellow. +Part of a shipment wrecked on the New York +Central Railroad near McElhattan, <i>en route</i> for +the loading plant.</p> + +<p>149. EXPLODED 3-INCH SHELL.</p> + +<p>High explosive and probably German. Picked +up between Arras and Baupaume by Col. +Shoemaker in 1920.</p> + +<p>150. SMALL BRASS CANNON-MODEL. <span class="long">L. (over all) 10-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Wheels, axle, gun and trail are all made of +brass. Bore, 3/8-inch, height, ten inches. Can +be fired. These little cannon-models are rare. +Period of 1812.</p> + +<p>151. ANCIENT ORIENTAL HELMET.</p> + +<p>Probably Persian. Chain-and-plate mail neck +guard.</p> + +<p>152. WATERLOO RELIC HELMET.</p> + +<p>Prussian Cavalry. Bears the number 47. +From Austin Collection.</p> + +<p>153. PAIR OF LEATHER SADDLE HOLSTERS.</p> + +<p>Carried by Trooper Samuel Barker, 7th Cavalry, +of Sugar Valley, in the Civil War. Will +take the Colt 1860 or any other Army type percussion +revolver, or the 1842 or 1836 Model +single-shot pistol.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_36" id="Page_36">[Pg 36]</a></span></p> + +<p>154. GERMAN SOLDIER'S BELT. <span class="long">L. 39"</span></p> + +<p>Has the familiar "Gott Mit Uns" buckle. +Picked up in France, 1918, by Major P. M. La +Bach, C. E., A. E. F.</p> + +<p>155. CALTROP. XVII CENT.</p> + +<p>Used during the English Civil Wars. Hand +forged with four needle-like points. Has at one +time been painted black for preservation.</p> + +<p>156. BARBED AMERICAN CALTROP.</p> + +<p>Four points. Made for the defense of Fort +Muncy. These caltrops were scattered in the +grass and on the trails to hamper the approach +of Indians, and were frequently poisoned to cause +infection. A rare Pennsylvania Indian War relic, +in good state of preservation. Secured through +Dr. Nevin J. Gray, former Assistant State Librarian, +of Pennsylvania.</p> + +<p>157. BLACKJACK. <span class="long">L. (including strap) 13-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Issued during the World War to the Pennsylvania +Home Defense Police. A good, substantial +"billy", covered with black leather and weighted +with lead.</p> + +<p>158. SMALL FLOBERT RIFLE. .22 CAL.</p> + +<p>159. GERMAN TWO HANDED SWORD.</p> + +<p>(From Austin Collection.)<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_37" id="Page_37">[Pg 37]</a></span></p> + +<p>160. COMPLETE SUIT OF ENGRAVED GERMAN ARMOR, 16th CENT.</p> + +<p>(From Austin Collection.)</p> + +<p>161. SPANISH MATADOR'S ESPADA.</p> + +<p>(Gift of Count San Juan de Violada, 1916.)</p> + +<p>162. PAIR OF FLINTLOCK PISTOLS said to +have been owned by David Lewis, "The +Robber."</p> + + + +<hr style="width: 65%;" /><p><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_38" id="Page_38">[Pg 38]</a></span></p> +<h2><a name="A_PARTIAL_CATALOGUE_OF_THE_PIPER_COLLECTION_ALTOONA_PA" id="A_PARTIAL_CATALOGUE_OF_THE_PIPER_COLLECTION_ALTOONA_PA"></a>A PARTIAL CATALOGUE OF THE PIPER COLLECTION. (ALTOONA, PA.)</h2> + + +<p>1. AFRICAN TRADERS' FLINTLOCK GUN. <span class="long">L. 66-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Roughly and cheaply made. Black-painted +poplar stock, brass mountings. Belgian proof-marks. +Guns of this sort were made at a cost +of about a dollar and often brought as much as +five hundred dollars worth of ivory.</p> + +<p>2. PERCUSSION KENTUCKY RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 58"</span></p> + +<p>Curley maple stock, highly polished and finished +in a dark, mahogany-like red. Big and extremely +ornate brass patch-box, brass plate on +under side of stock, running from trigger-guard +to lower ramrod-thimble, original striped ramrod. +All brasswork engraved. About .32 calibre. +Double set triggers. Sights not original. This rifle +was apparently made to order for some wealthy +gentleman farmer or city sportsman, and it is extremely +accurate. Mark, "Tryon, Philadelphia". +In almost original condition, inside and out.</p> + +<p>3. PERCUSSION SPORTING RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 56"</span></p> + +<p>Purchased in the neighborhood of Altoona, +Pa., and probably of Pennsylvania origin, though<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_39" id="Page_39">[Pg 39]</a></span> +there are no marks. Similar to the Kentucky +style of rifle, except for back-action lock and +small oval patch-box. Brass mountings and curley +maple stock. About .44 Cal.</p> + +<p>4. OVER-AND-UNDER PERCUSSION RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 50"</span></p> + +<p>Barrels revolve, being released by catch in +front of trigger-guard. Full length curley maple +stock, ramrod on one side and three German +silver inlays on the other. Large brass patch-box. +Mark; "Conestoga Rifle Works". These double-barrel +rifles with revolving barrels are rare.</p> + +<p>5. HEAVY PERCUSSION TARGET RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 50-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Full-length Kentucky type stock. Lock marked +"Jos. Golcher." Weight, 15 pounds. In comparatively +poor order, though it can be fired.</p> + +<p>6. U. S. ARTILLERY MUSKET. (PERCUSSION) <span class="long">L. 48"</span></p> + +<p>Civil War issue. Used by field artillery for +defending gun-positions against enemy cavalry. +Mark; "Savage R. F. A. Co." A rare type and by +a scarce maker.</p> + +<p>7. ENFIELD STYLE CONFEDERATE MUSKET. <span class="long">L. 56"</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_40" id="Page_40">[Pg 40]</a></span></p> + +<p>Light English walnut stock. Claimed to have +been used in the famous "Louisiana Tigers." +Confederate arms of any sort are rare. With +bayonet. Mark on lock; "Barnet, London". On +stock; "Edward Middleton, Gunmaker, Birmingham." +With bayonet.</p> + +<p>8. COLT 1861 MODEL U. S. ARMY MUSKET. <span class="long">L. 56"</span></p> + +<p>In almost new condition, with bayonet.</p> + +<p>9. GERMAN WORLD WAR MAUSER RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 49"</span></p> + +<p>7.9 mm Cal. Model of 1898. This rifle saw +actual service during the war and was surrendered +to the Allies. Mark, "Danzig, 1917."</p> + +<p>10. WINCHESTER RIFLE, MODEL OF 1876. <span class="long">L. 48-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Cal., .45-75. Weight, loaded, 11-3/4 lbs. Twelve +shots. Octagon barrel. Stock and forearm +crudely checkered by some former owner. For +some inscrutable reason, the manufacture of this +excellent weapon was discontinued long ago, but +for the sort of hunting to be found in this State, +it is much superior to the later small-bore, high-velocity +arms now sold. Roosevelt carried a rifle +of this model and calibre on his first African expedition +and used it on lions with good effect.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_41" id="Page_41">[Pg 41]</a></span></p> + +<p>11. BALLARD SPORTING RIFLE. <span class="long">L. 46"</span></p> + +<p>Octagon barrel. Rocky Mountain sights. +Weight, 9 lbs., Calibre, .32. This rifle was used +by a resident of Eldorado, Pa., for the purpose of +ending his earthly woes. After the suicide, it was +left uncleaned for about three years, with the +result that the barrel is somewhat pitted. Otherwise +in good order.</p> + +<p>12. SHARP'S PERCUSSION CARBINE. <span class="long">L. 39"</span></p> + +<p>13. SMITH PERCUSSION CARBINE. <span class="long">L. 38"</span></p> + +<p>14. DATED ENGLISH MILITARY PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 16"</span></p> + +<p>Bears the stamp of the British East India +Company, and the date "1810". No maker's +name. Brass mounted and similar to the pistols +used by the British cavalry in the Revolution, +the War of 1812 and the Napoleonic Wars. +Three notches cut in the stock.</p> + +<p>15. ENGLISH FLINTLOCK PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 14-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Brass mountings, round barrel and bag grip. +This pistol bears a curious assortment of marks. +On the lockplate: "W. Ketland & Co." On the +barrel: "London", a Belgian proof-mark, and a +half-obliterated engraved mark; "Cur—— & Bav——,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_42" id="Page_42">[Pg 42]</a></span> +Market St., Philadelphia." This pistol was made +in England, shipped to Belgium and then imported +to America, possibly during the War of 1812, +when direct commerce with England was cut off.</p> + +<p>16. FRENCH BRASS-BARREL FLINTLOCK PISTOL <span class="long">L. 12-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Cannon-mouth barrel, brass mountings and +lockplate, fishtail butt. Ramrod not original and +slight restorations. Trophy design on barrel and +stock slightly carved. Mark, on lock: "CASSAIGNARD +A NANTES".</p> + +<p>17. PAIR OF FRENCH DUELLING PISTOLS. <span class="long">L. 14-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>8-inch Damascus barrels, flaring at muzzles. +Nicely checkered walnut grips, steel mountings, +back-action locks, rings in butts, which unscrew, +the butts containing spare nipples and cleaning-head +for ramrod. Polygrooved rifling, 11/16-inch +bore. Mark: "MRE IMP<sup>ale</sup> DE CHATELERAULT." +and "1854."</p> + +<p>18. U. S. ARMY PISTOL, MODEL OF 1836. <span class="long">L. 14"</span></p> + +<p>Altered from flint to percussion by rare civilian +alteration. Swivel ramrod. Mark; "A. Waters, +Millburg, Mass." Not reliable as a source of +data on U. S. military weapons.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_43" id="Page_43">[Pg 43]</a></span></p> + +<p>19. U. S. ARMY PISTOL, MODEL OF 1842. <span class="long">L. 14"</span></p> + +<p>Percussion. Swivel ramrod, brass mountings, +almost new condition. Mark; "H. Aston, Middleton, +Conn. 1851." From the Meeks Collection.</p> + +<p>20. ENGLISH HOLSTER OR BELT PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 11"</span></p> + +<p>Large octagon barrel, German silver ramrod +rib, swivel ramrod, belt-hook, cap-box in butt, +back-action lock, silver mountings. Mark; +"Chance & Sons". British proof-mark on under +side of barrel.</p> + +<p>21. STARR SINGLE ACTION PERCUSSION REVOLVER. <span class="long">L. 14"</span></p> + +<p>Rusty and lacks cylinder-stop. Mother-of-pearl +lozenge set in butt, with initials, "J. R. L.". +This is the first piece that I bought when I started +collecting. .44 Cal.</p> + +<p>22. REMINGTON PERCUSSION REVOLVER. <span class="long">L. 14"</span></p> + +<p>"New Model" of 1858. .44 Cal. From the +Crouse Collection.</p> + +<p>23. SMITH & WESSON SINGLE ACTION REVOLVER. <span class="long">L. 12"</span></p> + +<p>The rare holster size. Six inch barrel, six +shots, .32 rim fire. Presented by Harry A. +McGraw, of the Pennsylvania Alpine Club, Altoona,<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_44" id="Page_44">[Pg 44]</a></span> +Pa. Rosewood grips. This model was a favorite +among Northern officers during the Civil war.</p> + +<p>24. COLT ARMY REVOLVER, MODEL OF 1860. <span class="long">L. 14"</span></p> + +<p>Bright finish, steel back-strap and brass trigger-guard, +has a most beautiful burl-maple grip. +Notched for shoulder stock. .44 Cal. In almost +new condition, and is still quite accurate. From +the Vaughn Collection.</p> + +<p>25. COLT NAVY REVOLVER, MODEL OF 1851. <span class="long">L. 13"</span></p> + +<p>Octagon barrel. Steel back-strap and trigger-guard. +London proof-marks. .36 Cal. From +the Meeks Collection.</p> + +<p>26. COLT POCKET REVOLVER, MODEL OF 1862. <span class="long">L. 11-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>.36 calibre, five shots. Fluted cylinder. Silver +plated back-strap and trigger-guard (wearing). +A trifle rusty.</p> + +<p>27. COLT SINGLE ACTION ARMY REVOLVER. <span class="long">L. 11"</span></p> + +<p>Sliding rod ejector. .45 calibre. In almost +new condition. 5-1/2" barrel.</p> + +<p>28. COLT NEW ARMY MODEL REVOLVER. <span class="long">L. 12"</span></p> + +<p>.38 calibre. Ring in butt. Type used by U.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_45" id="Page_45">[Pg 45]</a></span> +S. troops in the Philippines. During the World +War, this revolver was carried by an employe of +the DuPont Powder Company.</p> + +<p>29. COLT NEW ARMY MODEL REVOLVER. .32-20 Cal. <span class="long">L. 12"</span></p> + +<p>A civilian gun, made for sale. Differs from +No. 28 in several minor respects.</p> + +<p>30. ENGLISH WEBLY "BULL DOG" REVOLVER. <span class="long">L. 7"</span></p> + +<p>"P. Webly and Son, London and Birmingham" +on barrel, also, "The Pug." Probably a +Scotland Yard gun, as it bears a painted number +(381) on the frame.</p> + +<p>31. "DEFENDER" REVOLVER. <span class="long">L. 6"</span></p> + +<p>A cheap and altogether worthless revolver of +the type selling for .75 or $1.00 to gullibles during +the period of 1870-1900. From the Crouse +Collection.</p> + +<p>32. HOPKINS & ALLEN "RANGER NO. 2" REVOLVER. <span class="long">L. 6-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Nickel-plated, rubber grips, .32 Rim Fire. +Peculiar cylinder-pin-catch on side of frame.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_46" id="Page_46">[Pg 46]</a></span></p> + +<p>33. SINGLE SHOT CARTRIDGE PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 6-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>"Morgan & Clapp, New Haven, Ct.," on top +of octagon barrel. Brass frame, barrel swings +out to load on pressure on a stud under frame, +rosewood grips, rear sight notched in hammer. +Presented by Dr. L. M. Nugent, of Altoona.</p> + +<p>34. SMALL .22 CALIBRE CARTRIDGE PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 4"</span></p> + +<p>Said to be the smallest cartridge pistol ever +made. Barrel swings to side to load. Rare.</p> + +<p>35. ALLEN & THURBER PEPPERBOX. <span class="long">L. 7-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>.31 Cal. From the Vaughn Collection.</p> + +<p>36. FLINTLOCK POCKET PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 6-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Checkered and carved grip, round screw-off +barrel, center hammer, sliding safety. Frame +nicely engraved. French.</p> + +<p>37. BELGIAN PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 6-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Octagon barrel.</p> + +<p>38. BELGIAN PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 6"</span></p> + +<p>Round barrel. Folding trigger. German +silver tulip shaped name-plate.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_47" id="Page_47">[Pg 47]</a></span></p> + +<p>39. AMERICAN PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 5-3/4"</span></p> + +<p>Round barrel. Cheap, being made of cast-iron +throughout. No marks except a serial number, +736. Peculiarly simple mechanism. Barrel +stopped at breech, otherwise good.</p> + +<p>40. PHILADELPHIA TYPE DERRINGER. <span class="long">L. 6-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>Engraved German silver mountings. No +marks. Almost in new condition.</p> + +<p>41. SMALL AMERICAN PERCUSSION POCKET PISTOL. <span class="long">L. 9"</span></p> + +<p>Full stock of curley maple. Hickory ramrod. +Barrel is octagon, rifled deeply and about .32 +calibre. Brass and German silver mountings. +Barrel marked "Fleeger, Allegheny". Lock +marked "Howells, Philadelphia." Possibly made +for some riverboat captain or river gambler, +and may have a bloody history. Rare.</p> + +<p>42. U. S. ARMY LUGER AUTOMATIC. 7.65 M/M Cal. <span class="long">L. 9"</span></p> + +<p>Same as No. 72, Shoemaker Collection.</p> + +<p>43. U. S. CIVIL WAR NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICER'S SWORD. <span class="long">L. 38-1/2"</span><span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_48" id="Page_48">[Pg 48]</a></span></p> + +<p>Straight blade, bronze hilt, with sheath. +Mark; "Emerson & Silver, Trenton, N. J."</p> + +<p>44. CAVALRY SABRE. <span class="long">L. 40-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>With scabbard. Bloodstains on guard. Mark; +"U. S. 1863".</p> + +<p>45. PAIR OF FENCING FOILS. <span class="long">L. 49"</span></p> + +<p>Cup guards, engraved blades, cord-wrapped +hilts. Marked "Solingen". From Sibley Collection.</p> + +<p>46. DAGGER. <span class="long">L. 14"</span></p> + +<p>Brass cross-guard. Ivory handle, carved in +the shape of two clasped hands. Very old, possibly +Sixteenth Century. Spanish or Italian.</p> + +<p>47. SMALL DAGGER. <span class="long">L. 9"</span></p> + +<p>Ebony handle, brass guard and pommel, +sharp five-inch blade. Made by Taylor, of Sheffield, +and so marked. From the Crouse Collection.</p> + +<p>48. FULL SET OF EQUIPMENT FOR THE PENNA. HOME DEFENSE POLICE.</p> + +<p>Blackjack, black-and-white striped armband, +badge and whistle. These sets were issued during +the World War to a rather ineffectual organization +of citizens, supposed to aid in keeping order. +At the close of the war, this organization was<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_49" id="Page_49">[Pg 49]</a></span> disbanded +and the equipment turned in and disposed +of. In time, they will become quite rare.</p> + +<p>49. BLACKJACK. <span class="long">L. 15"</span></p> + +<p>An old type. Worn and broken in the middle. +This blackjack was used by the father of the +present owner to beat an improvised bass-drum +during a celebration of the election of Governor +Pattison in 1882, at Tyrone, Pa., and it was +broken at that time.</p> + +<p>50. FIVE BULLET MOULDS.</p> + +<p>One casting a rifle-ball, sixty-five to the pound. +One casting a round ball, about .44 calibre. One +casting a ball for the Tryon rifle, No. 2. Two +two-bullet moulds, casting round and conical bullets, +one for a .36 and the other for a .44 Colt.</p> + +<p>51. BRASS TWELVE-BULLET MOULD. <span class="long">L. 11"</span></p> + +<p>Crude and evidently old.</p> + +<p>52. POWDER HORN. <span class="long">L. 23"</span></p> + +<p>Fine age-coloring, shading from black and +dark brown at tip to gray and orange. Wooden +screw-plug in base for filling. An extremely old +horn, and rare in this unusual size.<span class='pagenum'><a name="Page_50" id="Page_50">[Pg 50]</a></span></p> + +<p>53. ZINC POWDER FLASK. <span class="long">L. 7"</span></p> + +<p>Embossed design. Originally a shotgun flask, +but the charger has been re-lined, making it +small enough for a revolver or light rifle.</p> + +<p>54. OLD PISTOL HORN. <span class="long">L. 6"</span></p> + +<p>Finely polished and colored. Plug in tip is +not original, being made of red fibre. Plug in +base is of black walnut, neatly turned.</p> + +<p>55. POWDER HORN. <span class="long">L. 9-1/2"</span></p> + +<p>This horn was made by myself in 1925, for +use with my various muzzle-loading arms. It +probably enjoys the distinction of being the last +powder horn made in this State for practical use.</p> + +<p class="center">FINIS</p> + +<p class="figcenter" style="width: 186px;"> +<img src="images/image005.png" width="186" height="200" alt="" title="" /> +</p> +<hr style="width: 65%;" /> + +<p><b>Transcriber's Notes:</b></p> + +<p>The Table of Contents has been added.</p> +<p>The typo concial was changed to conical in:</p> + +<p>141. BULLET MOULD.</p> + +<p>Crude and evidently homemade. Casts one conical bullet. .36 Cal.</p> + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and +Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks", by Henry W. 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