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Rifle with multiple silver inlays. Barrel length 41.5",  .40 caliber rifled barrel, total length 57”.

Circa. 1858 

               Jas  Golcher Percussion Lock

Barrell is stamped, Jacob Roop, J. R

     T23

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.35 Caliber,  Rifled Barrel length 38.25”, Total Length 54”.

circa 1850's -60's

R.W. Booth, Cincinnati  percussion lock

This simple, unsigned rifle with a plain stock has Roop attributes.   The patchbox, finial, and the trigger guard are consistent with Jacob Roop and Jacob Roop, Jr. styles used in Dauphin and Centre County, Pennsylvania. The engraving is consistent with Jacob senior, though it is missing a few details seen on his other known engravings. The stock architecture is nearly identical to the Roop-Sweitzer rifle #3 above in this section (T9), albeit this is a full stock.

It's possible that Jacob Roop, Jr. built the rifle and Jacob senior, by then in his late 60's or in his 70's, engraved the patchbox. Or it could have been built by Jacob Roop Jr. after he moved to  Fairbury, IL  after his father's death, using hardware he had kept from his father.

It is also possible but less likely that it was built by Landis, an early apprentice of Roop senior.  Benjamin Landis, who ran away from his  apprenticeship with Jacob Roop in his early years, is documented to have had a gunsmith business in Cincinnati, Ohio in the mid 1830's.   

Bottom line: I think the Roop family built this rifle.

T38

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