Original U.S. Pennsylvania Percussion Rifle by J. Hillegas with British Trade Lock - circa 1840 Hotchkiss MG most probably soon after AH's

most probably soon after AH's Invasion of the USSR in 1941

After this there were various other versions

indicating manufacture by Mauser Oberndorf

that is was not only fragile

Original U.S. Pennsylvania Percussion Rifle by J. Hillegas with British Trade Lock - circa 1840 Hotchkiss MG most probably soon after AH'sOriginal Item: One of a Kind. This just came out of the attic after a hundred years of storage together with a couple of hundred other guns. Here is an octagonal barreled Rifled "Kentucky" style rifle, which more correctly is known as a Pennsylvania Rifle. It was actually constructed using a BRITISH TRADE percussion lock mechanism, which is marked JOSEPH GOLCHER on the plate. Joseph Golcher of King Street, Darlston, Staffordshire, England was a