Welcome to HORNBERGER ANTIQUE ARMS antique guns
Fine quality antique firearms - American and Continental - swords, powder horns & accouterments
About Us
PATRICK HORNBERGER
PATRICK HORNBERGER
SERVICES
Hornberger Antique Arms is a dealer in fine antique arms and accouterments hand-made before 1888. We do NOT sell modern arms and none of our firearms or items require a license to be purchased.
- We buy and sell antique firearms of all kind-American and European, along with any related accouterment, such as powder horns and flasks,
SERVICES
Hornberger Antique Arms is a dealer in fine antique arms and accouterments hand-made before 1888. We do NOT sell modern arms and none of our firearms or items require a license to be purchased.
- We buy and sell antique firearms of all kind-American and European, along with any related accouterment, such as powder horns and flasks, hunting bags, etc.
- We buy and sell high-quality swords and edged weapons - American and European
- We appraise antique firearms and related material for collectors, insurance purposes, and auctions.
- We can sell your antique arms through our consignment program, including placing your items for sale on this website.
- We can also arrange to sell your firearms at the lowest cost through Guyette & Deeter Auction house, where Patrick is a firearms specialist and consultant.
- We can be seen at most of the major antique firearm shows including the famous Baltimore Antique Arms Show each spring.
Through our other company, Eastwind Publishing, we publish high-quality color books on antiques and early firearms for collectors and museums.
PATRICK HORNBERGER
PATRICK HORNBERGER
PATRICK HORNBERGER
Hornberger Antique Arms is a business operated by Patrick Hornberger, who has been selling, buying, and appraising antique arms since 1989.
He is the author of BERKS COUNTY LONG RIFLES, published for the Berks County Historic Society (Berks History Center) in Reading, Pennsylvania. The book accompanied the Exhibit of the same name held
Hornberger Antique Arms is a business operated by Patrick Hornberger, who has been selling, buying, and appraising antique arms since 1989.
He is the author of BERKS COUNTY LONG RIFLES, published for the Berks County Historic Society (Berks History Center) in Reading, Pennsylvania. The book accompanied the Exhibit of the same name held
at the Society in 2009.
Patrick also co-authored with John Kolar and published the book, LANCASTER LONG RIFLES, Published for the Pennsylvania Historic Commission property at the Landis Valley Museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. The book and the accompanying exhibit held at Landis Valley in 2012 is considered the largest attended exhibit of American long rifles.
He is also the co-author with the late Joe Kindig III of the book, MASTERPIECES OF THE AMERICAN LONG RIFLE, The Joe Kindig Collection which accompanied the exhibit of long rifles held at the Reading Public Museum in 2014.
Patrick was a curator of all three of the above landmark exhibits.
He has written numerous articles in national magazines on antiques and is the past founder/editor of Antique Collecting the national awarded magazine.
He is a member of several antique arms collectors associations and clubs here and abroad.
Patrick is also the American long rifle specialist at the Guyette & Deeter Auction house in St. Michaels, Maryland.
PATRICK HORNBERGER
NEW COLLECTION
We have recently been consigned an outstanding collection of long rifles consisting of early Maryland and Pennsylvania-made rifles and accouterments.
The collection includes the following rifles, refer to the rifle by our number.
1. William Defibaugh, Bedford County, PASOLD
2. John Amos, Bedford County
3. Daniel Border, Bedford
NEW COLLECTION
We have recently been consigned an outstanding collection of long rifles consisting of early Maryland and Pennsylvania-made rifles and accouterments.
The collection includes the following rifles, refer to the rifle by our number.
1. William Defibaugh, Bedford County, PASOLD
2. John Amos, Bedford County
3. Daniel Border, Bedford CountySOLD
4. George Slonaker, Bedford CountySOLD
25. Joseph Clippinger, Franklin Count SOLD
26. Peter White, Emmitsburg, MD
32. unsigned rifle, Bedford County
33. John Amos, Bedford County
34. Wickham & Mathews, Emmitsburg, MDSOLD
35. Henry Koons, Double Pipe Creek, MD
38. unsigned rifle, Bedford County
39. Nathaniel Rowe, Emmitsburg, MD
40. John Whetstone, Hagerstown, MD
41. Andrew Kopp, Adams County, PASOLD
42. George Slonaker, Bedford CountySOLD
43. Joseph Mills, Bedford County
44. Daniel Border, Bedford CountySOLD
45. Nathaniel Rowe, Emmitsburg, MD
46. unsigned rifle, Bedford County
47. Jacob Stoudenour, Bedford County
48. Jacob Stoudenour, Bedford CountySOLD
50. William Moore, Bedford CountySOLD
51. John Armstrong, Emmitsburg, MDSOLD
See below for other firearms for sale...