Trade guns ?

[jerrywh]

 Since I never was into trade guns I need to know if there were left handed trade guns during the period.  Who knows?

[Mike Brooks]

Pretty much no.

[Hungry Horse]

 There is the remnence of a left handed French fusil fin in one of the trade gun books. So they did exist in limited numbers.

   Hungry Horse

[conquerordie]

The left handed fusil fin is in Hamilton's Colonial Frontier Guns. Just being a fusil fin means some expense went into making the gun. A cheaper gun or model, less likely to be made differently or left handed. But like everything 18th centruy, I'll never say never.

[Levy]

I got to do the conservation work on the left-handed gun depicted in T. M. Hamilton's book.  It was definitely too nice to be a regular trade gun, though it was in Indian hands.  I worked on two different batches of  artifacts that were recovered in Louisiana that included many firearms.  One of the groups of artifacts came from the Angola Prison Farm.

James Levy