- Object Name
- Maker
- Place Made
- Date
1840s
- Materials
Steel body, engraved decorations, German silver ring (escutcheon) around barrel key, walnut stock with cross-hatched wrist
- Dimensions
L: 45 1/2 in
- Credit Line
Donated by Petra and Greg Martin to the Autry Museum
- Object ID
96.147.1
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- Institution
Autry Museum of the American West
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- Category
Art and Artifacts
- Remarks
Rifle, Robinson, .50 caliber muzzle loading half-stock, 1840s. On lockplate in capital letters is engraved: ROBINSON, indicating the maker or gunsmith, William Robinson, Philadelphia. Previously owned by James Nosworthy, a meat hunter for the hotels of the Great Northern Railroad.
- Subject
- Used