T. Ketland Blunderbuss ID

[fpereira]

Anyone can help me to get more info about this flintlock (coach gun?). The mechanism is a T. Ketland and the barrel (2/3 hexagonal) have just one visible proofmark.

Thanks

 

[jsn]

All I can say is that lock was probably replaced, the stock style and barrel looks a whole lot older than the lock

 

[JV Puleo]

This looks to me like a cobbled together mix of odd parts. It isn't a blunderbuss barrel at all... but a cut up musket barrel that has had a cartoon-like flaring job done to it. The whole lock is probably from an export grade Ketland musket ca. 1800-1810 - the rest of the parts could be from anything.

 

[fpereira]

I understand.....Thanks!
And about the barrel proof mark? Anyone know this symbol?

 

[JV Puleo]

I ought to have added that the Ketlands did a considerable export business in South/Latin America so the presence of a Ketland export grade lock is completely appropriate.

 

[KABAR2]

This looks like something that probably came out of Mexico, I had seen several in a museum collection (in the basement storage) out in New Mexico years ago - most cobbled together from old
musket parts or cut down muskets - looked like the flaring was done at the local blacksmith's
rather than the work of a gunsmith.