Congratulations . Nice find ; very Pirates of the Caribbean. Before someone else points it out the stock looks early pattern Brown Bess but without details of the inletting for the missing brass work cant say exactly when . The lock profile looks post 1755 Long Land but the give away is probably the lack of a frizzen bridle and the leaf shaped terminal to the frizzen spring. Both characteristics seen on Sea Service weapons. May not be an ordnance product but looks like it may have been assembled from parts destined for the ordnance system . Sea Service seems to have been the rough end of production hence anachronistic features such as bridleless pans and parts which stylistically don't always appear to belong in the same timeframe .
Last edited by Raf; 7th November 2014 at 08:39 AM.
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7th November 2014, 08:12 AM
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