.44 caliber. Pinned 41.25" heavy octagonal barrel 1" across the flats at the muzzle. SN: NSN. Browned finish, brass furniture, full-length stock with raised cheek rest, German silver decoration and inlays. Unmarked, lightly engraved commercial single screw percussion lock may be an old replacement with thin hammer and long, curved spur reminiscent of Lehigh Valley guns. Barrel with long, screwed in drum bolster is signed in script "G*F+". Lock with double set triggers, dovetailed fixed notch rear sight, dovetailed German silver front sight blade in brass base. Obverse butt with lightly engraved open work four-piece brass patchbox. Two-screw flat side plate lightly engraved as well. Brass crescent buttplate, plain toe plate, finger extension triggerguard. Cheek rest with oval German silver plate engraved with a folk art American "spread-winged" Eagle. Stock with 21 additional German silver decorations, most with only light boarder line engravings. Forend decorations cover the pins and their holes. George Fay (1811-1890) was a Pennsylvania gunmaker who worked in Hopewell Township, Bedford County circa 1835-1844 and in Allegheny Township in Blair County circa 1848-1858. By 1862 Fay was working in Altoona, PA (also Blair County) where he remained through the rest of his life. This is a lovely rifle, with lots of applied embellishment that displays very nicely.