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General discussion => Antique Gun Collecting => Topic started by: fundukj on November 02, 2024, 06:34:21 PM

Title: Early Musket
Post by: fundukj on November 02, 2024, 06:34:21 PM

Lock marked "MBG" for Maubeuge.  44.5" barrel, about .76 or .78 caliber.
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Title: Re: Early Musket
Post by: spgordon on November 03, 2024, 04:23:05 PM

What is the name there? Hoogenhuysen?

Title: Re: Early Musket
Post by: fundukj on November 03, 2024, 05:08:05 PM

Yes.  The name looks Dutch to me.

Title: Re: Early Musket
Post by: backsplash75 on November 03, 2024, 05:11:44 PM

It's a Dutch arsenal pattern musket, of the type imported here during the F&I period, with the wrong lock slapped in and a missing sideplate- something is funky with the rammer.

Title: Re: Early Musket
Post by: bluenoser on November 04, 2024, 12:44:08 AM

Is there by any chance a full-length flat sighting plane along the top of the barrel?  I am trying to identify the barrel on a militia musket and suspect it might be Dutch.

Title: Re: Early Musket
Post by: fundukj on November 04, 2024, 04:33:18 AM

Nope.  Barrel is round.

Title: Re: Early Musket
Post by: bluenoser on November 04, 2024, 04:00:10 PM

Thanks for the reply.

Title: Re: Early Musket
Post by: Clark Badgett on November 10, 2024, 07:32:03 PM

Not a Maubeuge musket.

Title: Re: Early Musket
Post by: ntqlvr1948 on November 11, 2024, 08:05:26 PM

It is a type one or two Dutch flintlock musket   probably ca 1720, with a French lock and missing the sideplate

Title: Re: Early Musket
Post by: Bob Gerard on December 01, 2024, 03:58:48 AM

Looking at the stock wood- are these original tool marks? There appear to be rasping striations and other cutting marks. If so, the stockers didn’t spend a lot of time finishing these wood, (or possibly needing to make them in haste?)
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Title: Re: Early Musket
Post by: rich pierce on December 01, 2024, 04:39:40 AM

I’m thinking it got weathered somehow. That part of the stock doesn’t match the comb.