Original U.S. Pennsylvania Half Stocked Percussion Rifle with Trade Lock by Golcher & Set Trigger c. 1840 Snider Rifles & Bayonets Dating from the Indian Wars

Dating from the Indian Wars in the 1870s and 1880s

The badge measures approximately 2 1/2" x 1 3/4"

Master Technical Sergeant rank chevrons to both shoulders

There is a bit of wobble to the hilt mountings

Complete with roping

Original U.S. Pennsylvania Half Stocked Percussion Rifle with Trade Lock by Golcher & Set Trigger c. 1840 Snider Rifles & Bayonets Dating from the Indian WarsOriginal Item: Only One Available. Just purchased at a recent military auction! Here is an octagonal barreled very nice "Pennsylvania" style rifle, often referred to as a "Kentucky" Rifle. The design developed in Pennsylvania, and then spread down the Ohio River Valley to Kentucky, where it was very popular. It has a heavy . 34" caliber octagonal barrel with 8 groove rifling. The style and appointments are very typical of the rifles made in the