Odd musket i have

[ntqlvr1948]

Musket help. Maybe parts pieced together



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[ntqlvr1948]

I don't know the wood, and the lock looks like maybe a locally made one...kind of crude looking will post more pics later

[backsplash75]

show us the triggerguard finial!

[ntqlvr1948]

I will get more pics of this gun tomorrow

[ntqlvr1948]

Here's some more pics. Barrel is 45 inches long. I don't think it was made up as a fouler. I think it was made up for military use.

[bluenoser]

Interesting musket.  Please provide overall pics.  The stock architecture appears as though it might be somewhat similar to the one I am researching (about three threads down).  I believe mine exhibits architectural and some hardware characteristics of both (British) fowlers and some American made COS-style muskets, but am still an absolute novice when it comes to these.  From what I can see this might do likewise.  What is the diameter of the bore?
Here is some interesting reading:

NRA - American Made Muskets in the Revolutionary War (https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/american-made-muskets-in-the-revolutionary-war-1/)

NRA - Hunting Guns in Colonial America (https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/hunting-guns-in-colonial-america/)

Grinsdale, Tom - Eighteenth Century American Fowlers - The First Guns Made In America
(https://americansocietyofarmscollectors.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/2004-B89-Eighteenth-Century-American-Fowlers-The-.pdf)

American Longrifles Forums - Committee of Safety muskets (2017 discussion) (AmericanLongRifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=44486.0)

Just a few of the sources of information I have investigated.
Happy hunting

[backsplash75]

Thanks for the additional pictures. I'm stumped. It is vaguely Spanish looking but not 100% there. Possibly Italian.

[bluenoser]

I recently came across this article and consider it quite informative WRT American-made Revolutionary War era muskets.  One never knows, it might provide some clues.
NRA - American Muskets Of The Revolution (https://www.americanrifleman.org/content/american-muskets-of-the-revolution/)

[backsplash75]

from another thread

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https://americanlongrifles.org/forum/index.php?topic=4650.0
Featured in the book "Flintlock Fowlers" by Tom Grinslade.
Date 1769
Similar size and component layout.
Shorter toe

I'm not confident that is the original lock if that gun is indeed from 1769, but thought the oddball scalloped TG was worth mentioning.

[Mike Brooks]

Possibly Dutch/Belgian. Liege or Uhtecht. Franklin wrangled for muskets like this for the rev war.