Author Topic: Maker’s mark for Kit Ravenshear?  (Read 1511 times)

Offline Flint62Smoothie

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Maker’s mark for Kit Ravenshear?
« on: December 24, 2022, 01:53:55 AM »
Does anyone have a picture of the mark he used?
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Re: Maker’s mark for Kit Ravenshear?
« Reply #1 on: December 24, 2022, 05:01:30 AM »
Sir PM sent. AJ.
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Re: Maker’s mark for Kit Ravenshear?
« Reply #2 on: December 24, 2022, 03:32:01 PM »
Hi,
If I recall, he often just used a simple "K" as a mark.

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Re: Maker’s mark for Kit Ravenshear?
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2022, 06:24:21 AM »
Per Alyce-James flintlock from Kit R. and the matchlock that I just picked up, we can confirm that Kit’s maker’s mark to be an offset ‘R’ to the right and on top of a ‘K’.

In addition, he serialized all his arms in a 3 to 4 digit numeric, where the 1st one or two numbers were the build number of the year and the last two signify the build year. So a ‘2085’ would be his 20th gun from 1985.


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All of my muzzleloaders will shoot into one ragged hole ALL DAY LONG ... it's just the 2nd or 3rd & other shots that tend to open up my groups ... !