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If I removed the decoration , which is a mix of European influence . It would be a Kentucky as defined by Dillon in his writings .
Your will also find the J Baum rifle in shumways rifles of colonial America
One of the issues we face though is that often people say Kentucky and Pennsylvania as one and the same . They in fact are not. What makes them different is the different schools of the time .
Different makers to include the Hawkens brothers rifles , can be traced to those original schools .
Take the Hawkens Brothers . They were simply makers NOT a school unique in and of itself .
Their line IMO comes from Bedford county as do many other makers . that’s why so many of these ½ stocks look the same .
At the same time , this style of rifle can be traced even earlier in the European sporting rifles .
So our long rifles evolved from those original schools . Hence earlier long rifles have a more flat butt , which facilitated shooting from the shoulder . Later rifles often carry the cresant butt plates which is meant to be shot from the arm / off the shoulder. Many things changed . but it is accepted that a Kentucky rifle is really nothing more then a generic term for long full stock rifle with no concern for given schools .
Kinda like someone saying ; I have a Trade gun .
To wich we would have to say ; Cool what type of trade guns . Is it a NW gun , an early English , ,is it a type G , type D ………..
All are still trade guns . But all are different
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