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Title: A Catalogue of Early Pennsylvania and Other Firearms and Edged Weapons at "Restless Oaks"

Author: Henry W. Shoemaker

Release Date: January 25, 2007 [EBook #20442]

Language: English

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A CATALOGUE _of_
EARLY PENNSYLVANIA
_and other_
FIREARMS _and_ EDGED
WEAPONS

_at_

"RESTLESS OAKS"
McELHATTAN, PA.

[Illustration]

_Collected by_
HENRY W. SHOEMAKER
Lieut. Col., Res., U. S. A.

_Compiled by_
H. BEAM PIPER, _of Altoona, Pa._

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[Illustration: THE LAST OF THE PENNSYLVANIA WAYSIDE GUNSMITHS BUSLER
BROTHERS, CLINTON COUNTY, PA.
(Frontispiece)]

_"Aerataeque Micant Peltae, Micat Aereus Ensis."_

--VIRGIL, Aen. VIII, 743

DEDICATED TO THE PENNSYLVANIA FOLK-LORE SOCIETY,
BY THE COMPILER

CONTENTS

PAGE
THE SHOEMAKER COLLECTION OF EARLY PENNSYLVANIA AND
OTHER FIREARMS AND EDGED WEAPONS. RIFLES, MUSKETS
AND OTHER SHOULDER WEAPONS. 1

PISTOLS AND REVOLVERS. 12

THE SETH NELSON GROUP OF EARLY PENNSYLVANIA HUNTING EQUIPMENT. 19

EDGED WEAPONS, POLEARMS, CLUBS, ETC. 23

ACCESSORIES, ETC. 31

A PARTIAL CATALOGUE OF THE PIPER COLLECTION. (ALTOONA, PA.) 38

[Illustration]

INTRODUCTION

For years this writer's aim was to visualize the armed Pennsylvanian
of earlier days; how he went forth to fight his Indian foe, to slay
the bison, moose, elk and smaller game, and on his expeditions to the
fields of love: where his firearms and edged weapons originated. To
create the living man his arms must be secured, and gradually the
present colle