Original U.S. Pennsylvania Percussion Target Rifle by J.F. Gehrett with Set Trigger & Flame Maple Stock c. 1860 m The leather on this example

The leather on this example is in outstanding condition

The left side of the helmet has a small fabric rosette

Marine during World War Two and brought back the the States as a trophy of war

and many are also inlaid with silver

held in place with large capped rivets just inside the outer edge and one smaller central rivet at the rear neck line

Original U.S. Pennsylvania Percussion Target Rifle by J.F. Gehrett with Set Trigger & Flame Maple Stock c. 1860 m The leather on this exampleOriginal Item: Only One Available. Just purchased at a recent military auction! Here is an octagonal barreled very upmarket "Kentucky" style target rifle, which more correctly is known as a Pennsylvania Rifle. It is in one of the larger calibers we usually see these in, . 50", and has a very heavy octagonal barrel with eight groove rifling. The top of the barrel is marked J. F. GEHRETT, for gunsmith Jacob Franklin Gehrett. He worked in Orbsibonia,