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Offline fundukj

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Early Musket
« on: November 02, 2024, 06:34:21 PM »
Lock marked "MBG" for Maubeuge.  44.5" barrel, about .76 or .78 caliber.

















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Offline spgordon

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Re: Early Musket
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2024, 04:23:05 PM »
What is the name there? Hoogenhuysen?
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Offline fundukj

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Re: Early Musket
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2024, 05:08:05 PM »
Yes.  The name looks Dutch to me.
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Offline backsplash75

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Re: Early Musket
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2024, 05:11:44 PM »
It's a Dutch arsenal pattern musket, of the type imported here during the F&I period, with the wrong lock slapped in and a missing sideplate- something is funky with the rammer.
« Last Edit: November 03, 2024, 05:58:57 PM by backsplash75 »
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Re: Early Musket
« Reply #4 on: November 04, 2024, 12:44:08 AM »
Is there by any chance a full-length flat sighting plane along the top of the barrel?  I am trying to identify the barrel on a militia musket and suspect it might be Dutch.
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Offline fundukj

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Re: Early Musket
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2024, 04:33:18 AM »
Nope.  Barrel is round.
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Offline bluenoser

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Re: Early Musket
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2024, 04:00:10 PM »
Thanks for the reply.
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Offline Clark Badgett

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Re: Early Musket
« Reply #7 on: November 10, 2024, 07:32:03 PM »
Not a Maubeuge musket.
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Offline ntqlvr1948

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Re: Early Musket
« Reply #8 on: November 11, 2024, 08:05:26 PM »
It is a type one or two Dutch flintlock musket   probably ca 1720, with a French lock and missing the sideplate
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Offline Bob Gerard

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Re: Early Musket
« Reply #9 on: December 01, 2024, 03:58:48 AM »
Looking at the stock wood- are these original tool marks? There appear to be rasping striations and other cutting marks. If so, the stockers didn’t spend a lot of time finishing these wood, (or possibly needing to make them in haste?)


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Offline rich pierce

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Re: Early Musket
« Reply #10 on: December 01, 2024, 04:39:40 AM »
I’m thinking it got weathered somehow. That part of the stock doesn’t match the comb.
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