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Appears to be an old military musket, forend cut down and ramrod loops fitted for use as a sporting gun. Probably smooth bored as well. Lock and bolster are similar to an Enfield, could have begun life as a contract piece from Britain or Belgium. Many of these guns were modified in the years...

Well it could possibly be from there but seems unlikely. Actual British built pieces were few and far between in the Nepal cache Enfields and this has the proper markings of a British built rifle. A few locks have shown up mated to Nepal made barrels. Complete British made rifles have been...

I'm guessing that caps come from Pakistan where they have been known to make their own ammunition for modern firearms for many years. I've seen films and read reports on the arms industry there. They've been known to make cartridge primers using various chemicals, probably not difficult at all...

Looks almost identical to one I owned years ago except yours has a slightly longer barrel. Mine was about 40 caliber, smoothbore. I shot it with a .390 RB and 10 grs powder. Fun little noise maker but not very accurate. Mine did have "SPAIN" visible on the barrel and engraving similar to yours...

I think toot may have the right idea.... Belgian companies were still making muzzle loaders for African trade when the revival of US interest in the old guns really began to take off in the 50's and early 60's. US import laws of the time required a "country of origin" stamp. Stoeger, Dixie and...

The zinc washer bullets were know as "Wiliams Patent Cleaner" bullets if I recall correctly. At least some of them were known to be loaded in colored paper and surviving rounds have reportedly been found in blue, green and red paper instead of the normal tan or "buff" color. These were supposed...

Colt "signature series"........... Used Italian made parts, fitted and finished in the US by the Colt Blackpowder Arms Co. A separate company from Colt Industries it was owned by Lou Imperato who had previously been involved with production of the "C" series (made in the Colt factory) and the...

Why Italy? One thing that seems overlooked (or talked around) is that when the modern era of reproduction guns started in the 1950's and 1960's the Italians were in on the ground floor. There were several people involved in creating the replica industry one of whom was Val Forgett who founded...

If I recall correctly 1861 Navy models that were cut for a shoulder stock had the steel backstrap. I have had a Colt 3'rd gen 1861, cut for stock, and it had a steel backstrap.

The stamps around the breech have me wondering if someone used an original barrel with a replacement breech plug in a trapdoor stock to build themselves a rifle. Awful lot of stamps there, more typical of older gun barrels I have handled than modern production ones. The plug appears to be...

Looks a bit neglected sadly. I think it's a fowling piece (shotgun) from the style and the lightweight appearance of the stock. It could be a rifle though it's hard to see if it has a rear sight and the muzzle is rusted to the point where I can't say if it has rifling or not. It looks like it...

Looks like it has small screws as retainers for the top. I believe that would indicate a reproduction based on what I have read and seen of original flasks.

Can't say for sure who imported it (rules were a lot looser on importing black powder guns years ago) but I have a flint tower pattern pistol that has a nearly identical lock (pan and lock shape are identical but mine has engraving on the lock plate itself). I built it from a kit I bought back...

I have owned a couple pistols built along those lines over the years. I suspect they were made by Jukar as the style of breech and lock appeared to be the same between the unmarked ones and the first one I had that had a makers name on it. I believe they were the earliest versions made for...

I don't think that's quite correct. It's well known that after the Civil War many troops were offered the chance to buy their service weapon. This was at least partly due to the fact that there was a huge surplus of weapons, many of which were already obsolete by military standards (the new...

My 1862 dated example was missing the ramrod when I got it. A new one wouldn't seat all the way so I tried running a deep hole drill bit in it by hand.... got a bunch of dirt out of it that had settled in the bottom of the hole and became a clump over time. Not a surprise as when I cleaned the...

One small thing, the original Hoppes #9 was developed to clean out the corrosive priming residue that was causing problems with the new smokeless powders for breechloaders in the early 1900's. Long before there was ever a plastic shot cup used with any powder in shotguns shells (a development...

I have that exact same gun that I built from a kit way back in the 1970's. It was sold by CVA as a "Tower Pistol" (I believe with the "Tower of London" in mind) and was also available in percussion. I believe some other importers sold versions of it as well. Mine is 45 caliber with a rifled...

I suspect such a thing would be hard to find as the revolvers were all made for a military contract and were shipped to the US arsenal in crates holding multiple guns. If there were examples of an individual cased gun it would be very rare (possibly some may have been made for the owners or...

Interesting but you need to consider the time period when Kings Semi smokeless was developed and produced. In the late 1800's and early 1900's the new "Smokeless" powders were quickly taking over the market for loading the modern cartridge guns. Kings Semi Smokeless (as well as Duponts Lesmoke...