French Trade Gun Finishes

[Cruzatte]

I'm dreaming of someday building a French Type C trade gun. I've read Tim Hamilton's Colonial Frontier Guns and rather like the lines of the French arms. How were these early guns finished? Were the barrels and locks armory bright, blued, or browned? Somehow I doubt they were browned. But I have no documentation. If iron parts were blued, were they fire blued? And while I'm at it, what differentiated the fusils fin from the fusils ordinaire as far as finish was concerned?

Cruzatte

 

[rich pierce]

Use the "Search" menu above and type in "Fusil fin" (use the quotes!) and go 3 months. If there are too many, type in Okwaho as the user name. Plenty of stuff posted on this, not all directly pertaining to your question, but all good reading.