The photos below show a signed antique percussion full stock rifle that was made by the gunsmith Daniel Benjamin Troutman (1822-1891), who was a son of Benjamin Franklin Troutman. Daniel was a gunmaker in Somerset and Bedford Counties, Pennsylvania before moving to Ottawa, Franklin County, Kansas.
I hope to to obtain additional photographs of this rifle so that other details can be shown.
L. Dietle
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From the limited portion of the buttstock that is visible in this photo, its profile seems to be similar to that of typical rifles by Jonathan Dormayer, the rifle attributed to John Altfather, and at least two of the rifles produced by Samuel Mier. This opinion may change if I am able to obtain and examine more complete photos of the gun. Click here to see the profile of a buttstock on a Jonathan Dormayer rifle. Click here and here to see the similar profiles of the buttstocks on two Samuel Mier rifles.
The next photo shows the nicely executed barrel signature on the D.B. Troutman muzzleloader.
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The first photo, immediately below, shows the attractively-engraved patch box, which has the Q-shaped finial that is so prevalent in the region. The patch box has five piercings, and four are elliptic instead of the typical "D" shape. A rifle by Daniel B. Troutman with a nearly (but not quite) identical patch box is featured on page 142 of the Whiskers' 1991 book "Gunsmiths of Bedford, Somerset and Fulton Counties".
