kblackphoto
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- Nov 17, 2009
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- nokta makro pinpointer
- Primary Interest:
- Metal Detecting
I found an antique gun my dad had put away for a few years today. I knew he had 2 but the other one is put away somewhere-I just haven't found it yet. The one I did find though doesn't have a brand name but it has H. Elwell Warranted near the trigger. The only thing I could find was that the name was the maker of the lock on the gun. A source on the net says:
"On the percussion rifle, Elwell was a maker of gun locks, in Seneca County, Ohio. (The last word should read "WARRANTED".) My source says he worked from 1810 to 1812, but that can't be correct, as I have seen H. Elwell marked percussion locks which could not have been made that early. I think a closer date would be 1850, unless there was another H. Elwell. There is no Liverpool* in Ohio today, though there is an East Liverpool; one source indicates that there once was a town of Liverpool, but that it no longer exists. There is a Liverpool in PA (some wag once said there is an everything in PA). Some information indicates Elwell sold his locks to or through J&D Little in Pittsburgh. Little was the "Brownells" of the mid-19th century, supplying small gunsmiths with, literally "lock, stock and barrel" as well as gun furniture, tools and the like. So if Huler was the maker, he (and Liverpool) could have been almost anywhere in the eastern part of the country."
It is a rifle and I don't know enough about guns to go further in detail. I'd like to know the worth- anyone have any knowledge of guns?
"On the percussion rifle, Elwell was a maker of gun locks, in Seneca County, Ohio. (The last word should read "WARRANTED".) My source says he worked from 1810 to 1812, but that can't be correct, as I have seen H. Elwell marked percussion locks which could not have been made that early. I think a closer date would be 1850, unless there was another H. Elwell. There is no Liverpool* in Ohio today, though there is an East Liverpool; one source indicates that there once was a town of Liverpool, but that it no longer exists. There is a Liverpool in PA (some wag once said there is an everything in PA). Some information indicates Elwell sold his locks to or through J&D Little in Pittsburgh. Little was the "Brownells" of the mid-19th century, supplying small gunsmiths with, literally "lock, stock and barrel" as well as gun furniture, tools and the like. So if Huler was the maker, he (and Liverpool) could have been almost anywhere in the eastern part of the country."
It is a rifle and I don't know enough about guns to go further in detail. I'd like to know the worth- anyone have any knowledge of guns?
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