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General discussion => Antique Accoutrements => Topic started by: jwhiteker on February 27, 2023, 04:47:00 AM

Title: British flint?
Post by: jwhiteker on February 27, 2023, 04:47:00 AM

Today I found my second gun flint here in Kansas. Any experts in here? From the research I've done points to British made, likely 1800-1860?  I know that these can still be purchased today. I highly doubt that anyone was shooting a flintlock rifle in the last 100 years anywhere near the place I found this. Thoughts?
(https://i.ibb.co/Q94HbqG/20230226-143433.jpg) (https://ibb.co/dBRpW3y)

(https://i.ibb.co/rFzcQCv/20230226-143506.jpg) (https://ibb.co/VJzQL73)

(https://i.ibb.co/Q671hHG/20230226-143601.jpg) (https://ibb.co/p369NKp)

Title: Re: British flint?
Post by: rich pierce on February 27, 2023, 05:04:44 AM

Yeah, it’s an English flint. Pretty sure most gunflints used in what is now the USA in non-French and Spanish areas were English. When we weren’t fighting.  ;D

Title: Re: British flint?
Post by: jbigley on February 28, 2023, 07:16:39 PM

Cool find! Sure looks like Dover flint.
--JB

Title: Re: British flint?
Post by: Daryl on February 28, 2023, 07:46:41 PM

Good find. :)

Title: Re: British flint?
Post by: Daryl on March 05, 2023, 12:31:59 AM

Bunch of flints like that along our trail through the bush. Oft times wonder if someone
in a couple hundred years would stumble upon them, but that is quite unlikely. :(

Title: Re: British flint?
Post by: Pukka Bundook on March 05, 2023, 07:29:33 AM

Dover flint JB?

Brandon was my thought. The Suffolk area is covered with good quality flint.   Many buildings constructed of great flint nodules.

Best,
R.

Title: Re: British flint?
Post by: TDM on March 06, 2023, 08:27:20 AM

Very neat. How or where did you find it?