{"id":985,"date":"2009-10-15T18:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T17:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=985"},"modified":"2025-04-25T07:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T06:16:23","slug":"was-this-rifle-made-by-jacob-sackett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/?p=985","title":{"rendered":"Was this rifle made by Jacob Sackett?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kelly Harriger of Brookville, PA, writes asking for help in identifying a late-percussion period target rifle.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"320\" height=\"82\" src=\"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/rifle4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-986\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/rifle4.jpg 320w, https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/rifle4-300x77.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A collector of western Pennsylvania longrifles has suggested that it bears the style of Jacob Sackett of Sagerstown, in Crawford County, PA. It will be recalled that we ran an article in the January 2005 TSFA Newsletter, &#8220;Jacob T. Sackett, Blacksmith, Gunsmith and Violin Maker&#8221; by William B. Moore, reprinted from the Newsletter of the Crawford County Historical Society.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kelly&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sackettfamily.info\/jacobsrifle.htm\">further information<\/a> on this rifle is on the website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Harriger of Brookville, PA, writes asking for help in identifying a late-percussion period target rifle. A collector of western&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=985"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/985\/revisions\/1184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sackett.one-name.blog\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}