also looks like the tail end of the lock was worked.
-
Friends, our 2nd Amendment rights are always under attack and the NRA has been a constant for decades in helping fight that fight.
We have partnered with the NRA to offer you a discount on membership and Muzzleloading Forum gets a small percentage too of each membership, so you are supporting both the NRA and us.
Use this link to sign up please; https://membership.nra.org/recruiters/join/XR045103
fake or good?
- Thread starter guest5234
- Start date
Help Support Muzzleloading Forum:
Wood screws, too.
Looks like an absolutely fantastic little repro.
Nicely teaked-up repro. I'd own it, for the right price.
- Joined
- May 24, 2005
- Messages
- 5,426
- Reaction score
- 5,173
Here's a possibility: Could this be a 19th Century Belgium gun made from surplus parts - with 20th Century stamps on the lock ?
The brass trigger itself is unusual for a European gun. Note the front of the trigger guard is not inlet into the stock.
The brass trigger itself is unusual for a European gun. Note the front of the trigger guard is not inlet into the stock.
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2018
- Messages
- 37
- Reaction score
- 56
I think that it falls into the repro/fake category because of the fake TOWER and crown cypher put onto the lock plate and, from what I see, no barrel proofs. Since the lock plate is soft enough to get a deep impression with a large stamp it is clearly not hard. It is not an Ordnance lock, nor an Ordnance pattern. The hammer is not original, I have seen Indian repro locks that have the same mis-shaped hammer. It could well be an Indian or Pakistani repro that has been aged. The grain in the stock inducates it was not stocked by a competent stocker. It was probably never intended to be used as a gun, but rather as decoration.
If it is an old gun, it has a lot of new/repro parts on it and a lot of fake markings.
Mike
