Colonial Trade Gun from a modern Belgian flintlock

[toot]

Kudo's to ya!

 

[cebusey]

So no one thinks that the guns back then were repurposed from available parts..? Or that a gun was used over several decades. With changes made to it overtime ? Because of repairs it needed..?
I think you did a great job with what you started with.
Well done.

The "purists" seem to believe that every smith in the colonial era worked from some sort of pattern book so that everyone's product would look exactly the same - that's just illogical horse pucky. Folks back then re-purposed what ever they could as there was no Track of the Wolf or Rifle Shop in the colonial era for them to whip out their credit card and order the exact part that would be deemed correct for experts in 2024. You did a fantastic job and most of us would be quite happy to have that piece. Great Job!

 

[Snooterpup]

The "purists" seem to believe that every smith in the colonial era worked from some sort of pattern book so that everyone's product would look exactly the same - that's just illogical horse pucky. Folks back then re-purposed what ever they could as there was no Track of the Wolf or Rifle Shop in the colonial era for them to whip out their credit card and order the exact part that would be deemed correct for experts in 2024. You did a fantastic job and most of us would be quite happy to have that piece. Great Job!

Very nice, good work. I would be proud.
I’m certain no one alive in the 18th century would have any issue with your gun.

 

[Rudyard]

Hi Tumbledown

Great job !!! Every once in a while one of these original, early 20th Century Belgium trade guns shows up for sale. Not the later ones assembled and sold during the mid-late 1960's (some with two-piece locks, others with long one piece locks.) Your's looks like one of the old originals. Congratulations. Good find. And again, great restoration job.

Rick

The proofs look Birmingham not Belgium not that that matters overly . Rudyard