Which smoothbore for N.C.?

[rabjr]

:haha: Click the link now!

 

[John Tice]

Here is another example of the Carolina gun be used by that name. Its from the store advertisement of George Wagner who owned a store at No. 85 Broad St. in Charleston, South Carolina. It was listed in the newspaper the 'City Gazette and Daily Advertiser' on Febuary 14, 1793. Mr. Brooks has done an outstanding job reconstructing these.

 

[grizzly adam]

So I guess I've got a unique fowler, since it's completely devoid of engraving! Maybe if I refine my persona I could be a Quaker ... they were know to eschew extraneous ornamentation ... didn't even use grave-markers. I suppose a Quaker could have ordered up a fowler without decoration. Best thing I can think of!

The oldest existing brick house in NC, the Newbold-White House, is just across the sound from Tyrrell County ... and that part of Perquimans was Quaker country. The owners of that house were colonial Quakers.
http://www.newboldwhitehouse.com/

Thanks for the info! I sure do want to soak up the greater knowledge available here.

I wish there were more folks around here into such things. Seems like most people are only interested in the extra week of deer season that muzzleloader season affords, if that!

Again, I appreciate any correction!

 

[Mike Brooks]

I wouldn't sweat the fact that your gun has no decoration, I nor anyone else isn't liable to pick nits that closely. :wink:

 

[tg]

"TG,
for the late 1600's could he be looking at a doglock/snaphance musket? "

It would be possible I am sure, but by the last quarter ot the 17th century the flintlock was pretty much the choice of most builders/buyers I would think

 

[Okwaho]

Here is another example of the Carolina gun be used by that name. Its from the store advertisement of George Wagner who owned a store at No. 85 Broad St. in Charleston, South Carolina. It was listed in the newspaper the 'City Gazette and Daily Advertiser' on Febuary 14, 1793. Mr. Brooks has done an outstanding job reconstructing these.

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John, thanks for that additional reference to the "Carolina"gun in 1793 in South Carolina.I think maybe we can assign the Type G term to its rightful place as archaeological terminology.Who knows maybe we can also bury the French Type C's and D's unless that's asking too much from reenactors and vendors.
Tom Patton

 

[Stophel]

Here's a few late 17th/early 18th century English guns, just for reference. I really like the little ash-stocked, buttplate-less musketoon.