It’s been slow on the forum. I guess everyone is on holiday I though that I’d post an image of a New England style firearm. Worcester, Massachusetts and it environs was a gun making center in the early 19th century before most gun makers migrated to the Connecticut River Valley. I have a Joab Hapgood fowler and it’s a cool looking gun. I though that I would share an image of it with the forum members. It’s a black powder smoke pole and shoots like a top.
Joab Hapgood (1805 - 1890) made the rifles and single and double shotguns that bore his name. He apprentice under Silas Allen in Shrewsbury, Mass. His shop was located on Oak Street on top of a hill. His house, across from his shop, had been built in 1747. Later lived on Main Street, Shrewsbury. At one time had a sporting goods store in Boston.