New York Half-Stock Percussion Rifle by Jeremiah Voorhees

.40 caliber. 27.75" wedge-retained octagonal barrel. NSN. No finish, brass furniture, pewter nose cap, hardwood stock with crescent buttplate. Single shot percussion muzzleloading rifle. Unmarked single-screw commercial percussion lock is lightly engraved, drum bolster in barrel. Top of breech with the weak initials JV stamped. Rifle equipped with a dovetailed notch rear sight, small brass blade front sight, brass scroll shaped triggerguard and buttplate. A replacement wooden ramrod is secured by two plain thimbles.

Jeremiah Voorhees (1810-1878) worked as a gunsmith and gunmaker in Avoca (Steuben County), NY circa 1848-1852 and in Wellsville, NY 1852-1874. {ANTIQUE}

This lot is located in Cincinnati.