Lock ID

[JayDee Flohr]

This is an old lock that I have. No name anywhere. Anybody have any idea as to the approximate age, country of origin, of this lock?

It's in an old fowler stock that has been modified so much through it's life with a rifle barrel and forestock that I don't even know if they go together.

 

[JV Puleo]

Its probably an English-made export quality lock from a side-by-side double. I say that because it looks to me as if the head of the single lock retaining screw was behind the cock. It would have passed through to the other side and been threaded into the opposite lock. If it was from a single-barrel gun the head would be on the other side and the hole in the lockplate would be threaded. Its what is called a bar-in-wood lock in that there was a sliver of wood above the front half of the lockplate, between the lock and the barrel. These usually date from after about 1840 though I confess to have forgotten exactly when they were introduced.