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Muzzy and Co were out of Massachusetts I believe. But they also just sold barrels so maybe the rifle wasn't manufactured by them, just used a quality barrel by them.

It looks like somebody's first time at stocking a rifle. They would have used a variety of parts they had. It was not manufactured by any company so it has no serial number. Sometimes a name Might be found under the barrel, in the ramrod channel, or even under the buttplate. Besides that can't...

Prices are crazy for Civil War rifles and everything else Civil War. If it were me, I'd pay $1000, if I really wanted $1200. But that's just me. Only if the barrel has the same date as the lock, and there are no replacement parts. To me the pics look like it's in its original shape, but make...

Google it and you'll see a few past sales. If it's a private sale, offer less than what you see the dealers selling them for. Value comes down to how badly your friend wants it.

It's muzzle being turned down means it is one of about 2200 Mississippi rifles that were altered by Frederick Grosz in 1861-1862 for the state of NY. They were issued and used by troops during the Civil War. At some point it was either purchased or somehow acquired by the state of NJ, hence the...

Sir, you're going down a rabbit hole. It is as it should be, it's a parts gun from the 1820's-1830's. Besides being flintlock and not percussion originally, there is no real restoration to be done. It's a piece of Americana, a piece important to some unknown individual, in an unknown location...

I don't know what to think. The furniture is all over the place. The trigger guard seem more like 18th century English, the escutcheon is an odd shape and engraved, where as the side plate is very plain and of a style that seems like it doesn't fit at all. The lock like I mentioned above is not...

I think the lock is a reproduction, an old Ashmore lock or maybe even a CVA lock? Nothing looks French to me.

Agreed target rifle.

I think it's just a cobled together parts gun. The lock and barrel don't mate very well, there should be no gaps around the bolster and lock. It looks like it has a few different types of barrel bands. In the one picture the front band looks like there is a large gap between the stock and the...

To me it looks like a standard conversion of a M1816 musket. Very common early in the war. Could have been his weapon, or like others mentioned, a prop at the photographers studio.

The P and U.S. stamps seem to me it's a reused musket barrel. Especially being the standard .69 cal.

Yeah I'm with a post war parts gun. It seems to be a mish mash of parts from various styles. Committee of Safety guns I believe followed set standards set by the colony, usually similar to British guns in style and caliber. If you purchased it as a Committee of Safety musket or British Bess, you...

With shot or ball? I use to use it with ball, Id just put the ball directly on the powder, and than rammed just enough tow down on top the ball to hold it in the barrel if I tipped the bore down. I never started a fire that I know of.

The interesting thing that I have read about the 1st and 2nd USSS is that some of their contemporaries did not think highly of them. We picture these guys as an elite force, and they were, but regular line soldier thought they were basically similar to murderers. Purposely going out in small...

If business is good you won't have any energy left to build the dang gun.

Sounds like something the government would say. I like the barrel profile.

If you Google the Whitney Arms stock cartouche, you'll see that Whitney purchased a bunch of slightly used muskets in like 1866-1867 and did there work, blued the metal, and stamped the stock. This one was shortened. So it's a neat gun, probably one with very little Civil War Service, but used...

As other might have mentioned, there was no Artillery Model rifles made in a M1861-63 parts during the war. I've always been told that's a name that dealers gave cut down muskets that retain a nose cap and barrel bands. Value would not be as much as an original length gun. Patina is something...

I'd say between the hammer and the countersunk screw head holding on the pan. If the side plate doesn't work, sometimes you have to make one. Use the one you have as a pattern, just make it a little longer. Not hard to do, and then you get to say the side plate was hand made!