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SOLD Rifle Shoppe 1740 Potsdam Musket

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Just got this in last week, picked it up from a reenactor who had used it in Ohio for many years, a 1740 Potsdam Musket, built from a Rifle Shoppe kit.

Don't know the maker, overall the build quality appears to be good, I did a quick fluff and buff on the piece and shined up the brass, the German soldiers who employed these weapons were notorious for having highly polished weapons. I had purchased this to complete my collection of all the major warring nations muskets of the Revolution, but ultimately it will just be sitting and collecting dust. So I'm offering it up for someone who can put it to better use, Asking $2400 OBO shipped.

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Just got this in last week, picked it up from a reenactor who had used it in Ohio for many years, a 1740 Potsdam Musket, built from a Rifle Shoppe kit.

Don't know the maker, overall the build quality appears to be good, I did a quick fluff and buff on the piece and shined up the brass, the German soldiers who employed these weapons were notorious for having highly polished weapons. I had purchased this to complete my collection of all the major warring nations muskets of the Revolution, but ultimately it will just be sitting and collecting dust. So I'm offering it up for someone who can put it to better use, Asking $2400 OBO shipped.
Nice gun. BIG gun, I presume.
.75 caliber?
 
Quite incidental to the sale of this musket just such a lock I purchased in Afganistan amongst the dozen mostley E, I, Co & Ordnance locks , I bought.in 1969 I let John Hakes have it he let TRS copy it so what you have might be the link to my one a lock I since regretted parting with but though it adds little to your sale or purchase I just thought Ide mention it a number of muskets' got up' by Prussian merchants Shickla Brothers rings a bell ,where sold to the Ordnance and issued to such as the Percy Volunteer's and perhaps levees and similar units It was marked' Potsdam Magaz 'John called them Kuffus gewers due to the shape of the stocks
.'Rudyard
 
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