handy sized matchlock WALL gun (?for tree stand?)

[cable]

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.asp?Item=30421154

practical item for the primitive season.

 

[musketman]

Rats, I missed the auction by this much...

---> <--- this much :haha:

Yep, it's old...

 

[bovey]

The style (shape) looks like it may have come from India. Looking at the serpentine, it makes me wonder if this may have been made up as a display piece. There appears to be no way to hold the match...

 

[arilar]

India for s

 

[bovey]

I missed that... after looking closer you can see the edge on the serpentine where the fracture occurred. Would like to have watched the construction of the barrel... I am sure it was a bear to create.