J W Spohn ring any bells here?

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An acquaintace of mine over on another forum has acquired this good-looking rifle, thinking it might be a modern replica worth zilch. A couple of us on the forum have suggested that far from it being a frawk of some kind, it is a genuine piece, albeit with a badly scored barrel. I suggested that Mt Hoyt might be the man to sort that problem out. What says the assembled wisdom here?

 

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I've found a John Spohn mentioned in a history of Pennsylvania post 1778, as a gunmaker. Might this gun have been made by a son or grandson, given that it is percussion and to me, at least, show no signs of having been converted from flint?

 

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No responses?

 

[user 48679]

Please don't let your anxiety get you carried away - not everybody checks every post every day.

A seven hour wait doesn't mean nobody will reply.

IDK anything about J.W. Spohn, but do think that he should shoot that gennie to see if the bore condition needs to be attended, before even thinking about re-boring to a larger bore size ( you didn't mention it's bore size), or re-barreling.

Boring will preserve the exterior barrel markings; a re-barrel will not - thus removing the originality....

Mr. Hoyt should definitely be able to help with the re-bore/re-rifling if it's actually needed.