{"id":31,"date":"2015-06-09T20:04:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-09T20:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/?p=31"},"modified":"2015-06-09T20:04:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T20:04:48","slug":"circa-1820-36-cal-cap-and-ball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/?p=31","title":{"rendered":"Circa 1820 .36 Cal. Cap and Ball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SPITZER SHOP ATTRIBUTED, NEW MARKET, SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA KENTUCKY-STYLE LONG RIFLE, tiger maple full-stock with brass patchbox, inlays including thumb plate and cheek-piece and double set triggers. Later percussion conversion. Has ramrod. Probably Henry Spitzer (1767-1840), New Market, Shenandoah Co., VA. First quarter 19th century. 45.5&#8243; barrel, 60.5&#8243; OAL. Very good condition. Fully functional\u2026 Provenance: Property of John Gray of Lebanon, Russell County, VA. By descent from John Gray to his son John Tevis Gray Sr to his son John Tevis Gray Jr.to his son Wilbur (Sandy) Gray to me. The rifle was in need of repair when I received it\u2026 The restoration was done by Paul Horowitz, an archival restorationists, thru Little Johns Gunshop in Santa Ana\u2026 All work was done using the same tools and materials which were available when the rifle was manufactured back in the very early 1800&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JG-cap-ball-11.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-67\" title=\"JG cap &amp; ball 1\" src=\"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JG-cap-ball-11-300x51.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"51\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JG-cap-ball-11-300x51.jpg 300w, http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JG-cap-ball-11.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JG-cap-ball-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65\" title=\"JG cap &amp; ball 3\" src=\"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JG-cap-ball-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JG-cap-ball-52.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-72\" title=\"JG cap &amp; ball 5\" src=\"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JG-cap-ball-52.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"127\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JG-cap-ball-41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70\" title=\"JG cap &amp; ball 4\" src=\"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JG-cap-ball-41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"137\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JG-cap-ball-21.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-68\" title=\"JG cap &amp; ball 2\" src=\"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/JG-cap-ball-21.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"126\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SPITZER SHOP ATTRIBUTED, NEW MARKET, SHENANDOAH VALLEY OF VIRGINIA KENTUCKY-STYLE LONG RIFLE, tiger maple full-stock with brass patchbox, inlays including thumb plate and cheek-piece and double set triggers. Later percussion conversion. Has ramrod. Probably Henry Spitzer (1767-1840), New Market, Shenandoah Co., VA. First quarter 19th century. 45.5&#8243; barrel, 60.5&#8243; OAL. Very good condition. Fully functional\u2026 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73,"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions\/73"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bigreb.com\/primerblasts\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}