SOLD .50 Cal Flintlock, Beautiful Exotic Wood

[danimal107]

I was told by a ML authority this rifle looks to be built by a member of the Pennebacker family but I have not been able to verify this 100%. The Pennebackers are known gunsmiths dating back to the early 1800's. I spent hours researching and spoke to numerous people. It was my fathers rifle and it has been in my family over 55+ years.

.50 Cal, beautiful wood, inlays, and hardly ever shot. The stock is mint as can be... It's been a safe queen stored correctly in a cover with oil on it. Barrel is very nice and I can provide additional pics and videos to serious buyers.

Overall length is 51 inches
Length of pull is about 14 inches

Asking $2795 or shoot me an offer.
-Dan

 

[azmntman]

If thats really an original it is in the best shape of any I have ever seen.

 

[danimal107]

It is a contemporary build. Guessing from the '60s ish build range...

 

[poker]

Your lock looks like a haddaway. That might give a clue as to earliest possible build date.

 

[psushchyk]

A very nice rifle with a beautiful maple tiger stripe. I concur that is a contemporary build due to the cheek rest.

 

[Curley 50 cal]

I’d call that stunning. Best of safer luck to the new owner. I‘m sure it wont be long till it is sold.

 

[Don H]

Who was W. P. Rush? The inscription on the barrel indicates it was made by him (fecit).
There was a well known sculptor named William Rush who lived during the Revolutionary War period.

 

[danimal107]

Don, I have no idea who W.P. Rush is. There are also initials on the stock saying J.N.P.. Unfortunately I do not have any definite answers on the rifle. I am going off what a guy who deals in muzzle loaders told me. I am just relaying the info here but he very well could be wrong and I want to be fully transparent that none of this info on the builder is proven. I had a handful of people look at it and no one had a clue or even a guess except for this guy. I spoke to Track The Wolf but they wanted nothing to do with helping me unless I consign the rifle with them. (which I may still do)

If anyone wants to further investigate because they are interested in purchasing I am more than willing to work with you in any way to definitively indentify this rifle.

 

[danimal107]

Send me some offers gentlemen... Worst I can say is no...

I realize I am new here. Fyi I have positive feedback selling on Gunbroker with the same name. I also have references I can provide of people I have sold to off Armslist...

 

[Throwdown58]

It's funny that I see so much GB here, and armslist lol? The people with money who aren't bottom feeders are all on these boards, GunsAmerica, and though it is dying now, GunsInternational. Stuff like this will get much more on either. But since the armchair experts here seem to feel that your backstory is at least a hundred years off, you may want to consign it. It sounds like your father may have been duped, or at least there is a doubt.

 

[Justin.44]

It's funny that I see so much GB here, and armslist lol? The people with money who aren't bottom feeders are all on these boards, GunsAmerica, and though it is dying now, GunsInternational. Stuff like this will get much more on either. But since the armchair experts here seem to feel that your backstory is at least a hundred years off, you may want to consign it. It sounds like your father may have been duped, or at least there is a doubt.

In post #3, the OP says he believes the gun to be from around the 1960's.

 

[EC121]

The "armchair experts" here correctly identified it as a contemporary build.

This is a Haddaway. Notice the frizzen screw, frizzen spring, single screw on the lockplate, and hammer shape. The OP's lock is more likely a Siler.

 

[E51WET]

Is that ivory on the buttstock?
If it is, be careful, to my understanding you can still sell products in USA that contain ivory from the african elephant if you sell it only within your state and that you can prove that it was from before 1990 laws.
Perhaps its not ivory and then your fine.

It is a beautiful gun, I want it

 

[Throwdown58]

Funny I didn't notice it was him posting that lol. At first blush it appears he is saying it's from the 1800s. Is armchair expert an offensive term?

 

[danimal107]

It's funny that I see so much GB here, and armslist lol? The people with money who aren't bottom feeders are all on these boards, GunsAmerica, and though it is dying now, GunsInternational. Stuff like this will get much more on either. But since the armchair experts here seem to feel that your backstory is at least a hundred years off, you may want to consign it. It sounds like your father may have been duped, or at least there is a doubt.

No one was duped and I have been more than forthright here. There is a Pennebacker that would have been alive in the 60's when this rifle was built who builds guns and has the initials that are engraved on the rifle.

As I have said I have no clue if this is who built it. We have no proof... I am just relaying the info I was told after talking to many "experts" about the rifle.

 

[danimal107]

Is that ivory on the buttstock?
If it is, be careful, to my understanding you can still sell products in USA that contain ivory from the african elephant if you sell it only within your state and that you can prove that it was from before 1990 laws.
Perhaps its not ivory and then your fine.

It is a beautiful gun, I want it

There is no ivory...

 

[Stickandrudder]

Sure is purty

 

[William Lincoln]

Dream machine.

 

[muzzlecap]

It's one nice looking rifle whoever built it.

 

[Mulebrain]

Sure is a pretty rifle, how long is the barrel and is it swamped?