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[mike3132]

The key word that always steers me away from an item is when the seller starts out with "rare".

 

[Va.Manuf.06]

Unless I've gone daft, the wider, shorter lock plates with "rain-proof" pans with "gutters" didn't come along until after 1800 and are more common to 1815-1830. Even if it proves to be all original, it's a late flint era lock.

The best most accurate post on the subject so far, thank you Wes/Tex.

 

[nhmoose]

Don't bid on it or buy it. You notified where it will do the most good.