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  1. Flintlock1640

    Help identifying this 18th century (?) musket (PICS)

    It is all French but the late lock which is post 1800. The lock was probably added when it was reconverted. It needs an early 1770s lock, pre 1777 with rounded lock and iron rounded flat pan
  2. Flintlock1640

    Forensic Identification for Flintlock Remains

    Let me know if you ever decide for it to leave your possession. I need the trigger guard for one musket and side plate for a different one. Both original.
  3. Flintlock1640

    Any help identifying this butt plate and trigger guard?

    TG looks like the early 1700s Dutch musket but those are in iron. I do believe they are Dutch with those two big screws but I can't find the model/era.
  4. Flintlock1640

    WANTED Brown Bess side plate

    Any chance anyone on here has an original Long Land or Short Land Brown Bess side plate? I have originals of each and both came without locks. I have since found locks but need the side plates to go with. I realize I can get them at rifle shoppe but would like original if at all possible. Can't...
  5. Flintlock1640

    SOLD Late 17th century flintlock musket

    Are you still interested? He was never able to raise the funds.
  6. Flintlock1640

    Here's a fun early Roman style miquelet with Spanish influence, Southern Italy?

    no worries, I've been collecting over 20 years now and it still took me the full month from the auction being listed to the date it ended to raise the funds selling like mad. It doesn't happen often for me and won't happen again soon.
  7. Flintlock1640

    My new wheelock

    It is, I haven't bothered removing it yet but I know it is wrong
  8. Flintlock1640

    And my new Italian miquelet carbine

    I suppose it may have been shortened just a little but the shape of the stock seems rather roughly cut down and it has no forward sight even though it has a rear sight. It also has that extra, large hole in the stock, not for a barrel underlug so I thought it was likely for some sort of mount. I...
  9. Flintlock1640

    And my new Italian miquelet carbine

    Ca mid 17th century. This musket is a beast. I think it likely started out as a wall gun and was shortened for heavy cavalry use. In those days I believe the front breastplate was often "prooved' with a pistol ball to make sure it was thick enough to stop a bullet. The answer to that would be a...
  10. Flintlock1640

    My new wheelock

    I will this year. Previous sales it just hadn't been worth the trouble
  11. Flintlock1640

    My new wheelock

    I've bought from Czernys for years and you are right, you have to keep all that in mind or it would be super easy to overpay. Shipping is exciting because only UPS will ship for them. It used to be cheaper when Fedex would still do it but now.... UPS charges about 100 Euros fee for carrying any...
  12. Flintlock1640

    My new wheelock

    Got a very fun package in the mail yesterday from Czerny's. I hadn't had a wheelock in a number of years so I sold a bunch of stuff for this auction and got one. I believe it is second quarter of the 17th century ca 1640s but I welcome your input. I got it with the miquelet carbine and lock...
  13. Flintlock1640

    Here's a fun early Roman style miquelet with Spanish influence, Southern Italy?

    There was some fun early stuff in that sale. I got a Wheelock, this and the Italian miquelet also shown in this post. I'll make separate posts for each of those.
  14. Flintlock1640

    Here's a fun early Roman style miquelet with Spanish influence, Southern Italy?

    Yes it did
  15. Flintlock1640

    Here's a fun early Roman style miquelet with Spanish influence, Southern Italy?

    I believe this to be mid 17th century. It's early and large. The shape of the lock and general styling looks like the Roman style but the way the **** sits on the stops that runs through the plate it is Spanish in style as is the main spring. The last photo to compare a Roman miquelet of the...
  16. Flintlock1640

    FOR SALE Antique American flintlock rifle barrel

    Still available
  17. Flintlock1640

    SOLD 8" American Chestnut bowl made from a joist in a 200+ year old house

    Drop to $65
  18. Flintlock1640

    Comparing an American made fusil from the Revolutionary period and a Liege Brown Bess

    It cleaned up nicely. The stock is not walnut. Could be cherry. The iron band is original. There is no finish or aging under the band. What I think happened is that the gunsmith didn't have a long enough drill bit for a full length musket so they had to cut it at the juncture where the ramrod...
  19. Flintlock1640

    Comparing an American made fusil from the Revolutionary period and a Liege Brown Bess

    You're right, I believe it's American. It's so rough finished I have trouble believing even a European trade gun would have a barrel like this with no markings whatsoever. Very rough filling work below the wood line and you can clearly see the seam where it was folded and forged together
  20. Flintlock1640

    Comparing an American made fusil from the Revolutionary period and a Liege Brown Bess

    Here's a similar trigger guard
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