real or not?

[Eric Krewson]

This just came up on the Facebook gun trading site, I am thinking tourist trade but I thought I better check with you guys who know a bit about these things. It is going for peanuts.

 

[Eric Krewson]

In a zoomable picture it looks pretty crude.

 

[PathfinderNC]

I didnt know FB has a gun trading site? Anyway it looks like a repro to me...

 

[tenngun]

Hard to tell without an upclose and personal but from cr 1880 on there was a big market for counterfeit ‘antique’ guns.

 

[Dale Lilly]

Doesn't look like a cheap tourist trade gun to me. I think it is a fairly nice modern repro, but I am in no way an expert [or even an amateur] on those critters. Polecat

 

[bubba.50]

Don't know anything about it but, I'd give a few 'peanuts' for it.

 

[SDSmlf]

At first glance, something doesn’t seem right. Barrel and cock don’t seem right with the lockplate and the wood, unless it a tourist piece or a not to well thought out replica of something….. then it’s what I would expect. Normally I would stay firmly planted on my wallet, primarily because I don’t know. But if it’s going for peanuts, why not pick it up?

 

[Old Hawkeye]

If it's going for "peanuts", the worst that can happen is you will have a really cool wall hanger for the "Man Cave". You do have a Man Cave, don't you?

 

[Brazos John]

One thing I notice, it looks like the loop on the lock turn screw is hitting the frizzen before the flint would.
Might just be the view of the photo, but that doesn't seem right.

 

[Eric Krewson]

I checked and it sold, it was going for $125 last time I looked.

The Facebook page is a neat way to circumvent the rules, pictures only, no text that says "gun", "bullet", "magazine" or anything in text about what is being sold so the Facebook algorithms don't pick it up. I am surprised just how many modern guns pass through the site, usually a 3-day auction, many of the reserves are not met. Every now and then a sidelock B/P gun comes up, they tend to go low.

 

[russellshaffer]

Either that person has a very large hand or the pistol is small.

 

[Brazos John]

I think you dodged a replica.

 

[hrt4me]

I am surprised FB still allows a gun trading page

 

[deerstalkert]

Packie or Indian.
actually after thinking a bit, hard to do with 2 active brain cells, it looks like one i bought at Disney Land about 55 years ago. one could actually fire the darn thing. with a string. a verrrrrrrrry long string.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

LD

 

[oldwood]

Might make a really unusual door knocker.

 

[Rifleman1776]

screams 'tourist trade' to me, perhaps middle eastern

 

[springfield art]

In a zoomable picture it looks pretty crude.

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Yeah, it's a little TOO touristy; the hammer (or cock) is way too big for it, it's a put-together item. See if other fellows don't say the same.

 

[springfield art]

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LD

I understand Disney dumped him for future pirate films, and are gonna use a woman to replace his character! I think this happened even before the end of the recent trial! Disney screwed up The Simpsons; it wishy-washeys everything it touches anymore.

 

[ormond tony]

There does not seem to be a viable pan or flash hole to set it off. It seems to be a wall hanger.