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Offline DMacKay

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Help identifying a family attic find
« on: November 27, 2020, 09:26:52 PM »
Anyone familiar with this gun?  It a really rough family attic find. Double barrel smooth bore percussion. It says R Wilmot on the side. The wrist was previously broken and repaired and currently is broken again.
Other than a family heirloom wall hanger, any other info I’d appreciate.





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Re: Help identifying a family attic find
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2020, 10:34:05 PM »
Looks like a post Civil War import from England or maybe Belgium.  But there was a Nathaniel Wilmot in Boston in 1847- then in ST Louis, in 1850-1859. ST Paul, 1862. 
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Offline Seth Isaacson

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Re: Help identifying a family attic find
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2020, 12:34:38 AM »
If you pull the barrels and share photos of the proof marks, we can tell you where it is from.
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Re: Help identifying a family attic find
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Offline Seth Isaacson

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Re: Help identifying a family attic find
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2020, 01:11:18 AM »
Those are Birmingham proofs from England.
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