I think I found an old trigger guard

[MarkinIa]

I don't know anything about old guns and I was wondering if anybody knows anything about this trigger guard. How old it might be? what kind of gun used this type of guard?

Thanks for any info you might have.

 

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[vayank54]

it is a trigger guard but the way it's made I would say it is precivil war. Cool find

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

I dont know what its off of but definitely half of a trigger guard. I wish I had time to search. I guess you already knew that.

 

[MarkinIa]

thank vanank54, You seem to know your old history

 

[vayank54]

You're welcome and Thank you. I've been digging for 40 years so hopefully I've learned a little something. I think, and hopefully someone will correct me if I'm wrong, that the trigger guard might be colonial. I've dug several gun parts at colonial sites and they were similar to your trigger guard

 

[Bigcypresshunter]

Try this link. Fowler? http://www.jaegerkorps.org/NRA/Hunting Guns in Colonial America.htm

http://www.tennesseevalleymanufacturing.com/catalog.php?category=trigger_guards

 

[MarkinIa]

thanks bigcypresshunter,

It does look like it could be a New York's Hudson Valley Fowlers.

Now now in the heck did that end up in a cornfield in Iowa. I hope I can find the rest of that gun in that field. You just never know what your going to find and that's what I love about this hobby.

Thanks Guy's

 

[vayank54]

thanks for posting that link bigcypresshunter. I hope you find the rest of it MarkinIA