December 10-13, 2024 Firearms & Militaria
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 12/10/2024
Tapering, round "cannon" barrel of brass with flared and turned, "bell-mouthed" muzzle, 19 7/8 inches long; the breech-plug and tang of iron; Birmingham private proofs on left side near breech. The lock is an unmarked, border-engraved, military style of rounded profile with gooseneck cock and unbridled pan. The gun's brass mountings appear to have been salvaged from a Pattern 1756 Long Land musket, including rouned sideplate, triggerguard, ramrod pipes and buttplate, the latter engraved with rack marks: "E / No. 2". Walnut full stock and wooden ramrod with brass tip. Overall length: 36 inches. Condition: lock in good working order, handsome and solid condition overall, with a triangular splinter of wood replaced along right edge of forestock, 1/4 in. at widest point (muzzle) and extending nearly 7 inches; similar, small triangular type repair running from barrel tang to breech; some light and scattered (filled) worming along forestock.