JV,
Appreciate your opinion. I take your answer to be: a commercially made, military style lock. Can you please provide some references? Any thoughts on the markings?
What makes this musket extremely interesting to me; the markings on the lock, the Brown Bess look/architecture to the cherry stock (to include beavertail carving at the tang and swell at the rear ramrod pipe), the bess type brass furniture (although the sideplate, butt plate and triggerguard are not dimensionally the same as typical Bess furniture), and the 42 inch barrel (round, no baluster ring at the breech, .75 caliber). I believe this musket to be as close to a "COS type" musket as I have recently seen.
Al