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General discussion => Antique Gun Collecting => Topic started by: moodyholler on November 06, 2022, 02:02:46 AM

Title: Small English Fowler
Post by: moodyholler on November 06, 2022, 02:02:46 AM: Pic

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Title: Re: Small English Fowler
Post by: moodyholler on November 06, 2022, 02:03:25 AM: Pic

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Title: Re: Small English Fowler
Post by: moodyholler on November 06, 2022, 02:04:10 AM: Pic

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Title: Re: Small English Fowler
Post by: moodyholler on November 06, 2022, 02:04:48 AM: Pic

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Title: Re: Small English Fowler
Post by: moodyholler on November 06, 2022, 02:05:26 AM: Pic

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Title: Re: Small English Fowler
Post by: mr. no gold on November 06, 2022, 07:20:36 AM: Hey Moody, where are you finding all these great guns? Hope that you bought a Power Ball ticket with your kind of good fortune. This little English fowler is a real dandy and will restore beautifully with not a whole lot of work; just a few lock parts and maybe a light coat of Renaissance Wax to seal off and protect that fine patina. Could it be a shooter? Thank you for sharing the joy by letting us all have a look at it.
Dick
Title: Re: Small English Fowler
Post by: cshirsch on November 06, 2022, 04:11:58 PM: I probably have a proper cock (hammer) casting for that lock. http://www.texasguntrade.com/parts.htm
Title: Re: Small English Fowler
Post by: Pukka Bundook on November 06, 2022, 05:24:01 PM: Is it about 18" long, Moody?

Looks about right!
Title: Re: Small English Fowler
Post by: moodyholler on November 07, 2022, 12:28:47 AM: 42 1/4 OA
25 1/2
.52 smooth
Title: Re: Small English Fowler
Post by: Feltwad on November 11, 2022, 11:51:17 PM: I would say it is a standard Birmingham gun of approximately 1810-20 with iron furniture with no name it could have been a ironmonger's retail gun. with a single wedge it would have had a 30-to-36-inch barrel if a double wedge it would have had a barrel length of around 40 plus inches. By the images the barrel look like iron and not Damascus twist at that period Spanish barrel were used on flintlock guns and were stamped with a letter F or had the word Foreign pity about the barrel
Feltwad
Title: Re: Small English Fowler
Post by: moodyholler on November 12, 2022, 02:01:16 AM: Feltwad barrel is signed in script under rust and is Damascus. I haven't cleaned or looked for proofs yet. moodyholler
Title: Re: Small English Fowler
Post by: Feltwad on November 12, 2022, 10:57:20 AM: I would be interested in the name and also the proof marks and the twist barrel good luck with the restoration but donot take it too far a gun should look its age.
Feltwad