This is a Pennsylvania Spoon made in the Lancaster style in 1975 by a guy named Jerry Kirklin. It is 45 caliber flintlock. Kirklin is still making rifles in Birmingham, MI...He is a known contemporary rifle maker...The rifle is nicely decorated with carving and a German silver star on the cheek piece. This lil spoon will set me back a cool G delivered....quite frankly you can not have a rifle made by one of these guys for what I paid.
Collecting Pennsylvania rifle one can collect the originals in which the price range is from $1500 to over $100,000.00. Or one can delve into the contemporary rifles where the price range is from about $1000 to apx $10,000 for a well respected maker. This field of collecting has been long established and is considered to be an art form. The contemporary rifles represents a very under collected area, part of the problem is that there is no real data base of contemporary makers extant
