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I have seen it asked several times, did the Hawken's make a flintlock? This is not a J&S but it is a Christian!
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"Hawken" flintlock
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Very neat Flintlock!
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It's in fantastic shape for an old rifle. It could pass for an "aged" newly built gun.
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Christian Hawken built flint guns. Sam and Jake probably did but non have survived to prove it.
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Since he died in 1821, I'd opine that most (if not all) the guns he made were rocklocks.
How many arms & legs would it take to acquire it ?
How many arms & legs would it take to acquire it ?
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The auction has a bid estimate $28,000 to $35,000. Definitely out of my reach!
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It is, without a doubt, a very beautiful rifle. But I will have to admire it from a distance.
Reading the Gunsmith of Grenville County a chart listing makers and their times it seems that Hawken was originally spelled "Hochen". Evidently German and not English.
It seems as if there is quite an elution of the Hawken surname. Even among the several brothers other than Sam and Jake, at least one brother that stayed in Maryland spelled his name Hawkin.
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Jake and Sam's father, Christian, has a signed eastern styled flint lock rifle attributed to him. There is a full stock flintlock rifle built on a Lancaster pattern signed by Sam Hawken that was built while he worked in Xenia, Ohio. There're just no plains rifles with either Jake, Sam or J&S signatures with any lock other than a percussion lock.
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Jake and Sam's father, Christian, has a signed eastern styled flint lock rifle attributed to him. There is a full stock flintlock rifle built on a Lancaster pattern signed by Sam Hawken that was built while he worked in Xenia, Ohio. There're just no plains rifles with either Jake, Sam or J&S signatures with any lock other than a percussion lock.
