This rifle resembles the work of Charles Wing of Fayette County, IN, working the in 1850s. He used good quality curly maple, slender stocks with 3 ramrod pipes, rounded cheekpieces, and perhaps most importantly, over-sized side-facings that extended well in front and behind the lock plate as on this rifle, with the back-end drooping down significantly. However, on the couple guns I've seen, while his side-facings have the same general shape of this rifle, the rear end is more rounded while this gun is pointed. But still, a lot of similarities.
Shelby Gallien
Shelby Gallien
