clubb butt geography

[NCOjohn]

I was wondering just what the geographic
limitations of clubb butt fowlers/muskets
were in the mid to late 18th century. I see
one in Battle weapons of the American Revolution
purportedly from NY and wonder if they would have been present or made in heavily Dutch northern NJ.
How about further south in NJ or Pa? Thanks! john

 

[wallgunner]

I've seem club butts from NY, NJ, Mass. I believe in Battle Weapons there is a Club Butt fowler by Thomas Annely. He work in NY, but later moved to Trenton around the Revolution I think. Don't have proof in front of me, but you could assume he built them in different states.
They might have had a Dutch influence, but depending on the time, different styles were popular, so different furniture styles would have been used. I don't believe all Dutch colonist used Dutch guns.

 

[rich pierce]

We sure don't know as much about guns from New Jersey but there's no reason to not use a club butt fowler if you are from NJ. Not that hard to obtain one.

 

[Okwaho]

I agree with Rich here.Club butts seem to have more prevalent in New England{including N.J.and N.Y.},Pennsylvania fowlers from the 18th century are not all that common and when found have rifle architecture as is found on rifles.American made Southern fowlers of the 18th century are virtually nonexistent and i don't recall ever seeing one illustrated.

Far and away the best book on American fowlers I have seen in some 45 years of study and collecting is "Flintlock Fowlers The First Guns Made In America" by Tom Grinslade {2005}
Tom Patton