French (?) fowler (musket) Mutzig

[bones92]

http://www.gunbroker.com/item/616934237

I thought you all might find this interesting.  I understand that it is NOT a Chareleville, but is very similar.  I like the 1777 date on the barrel.  Sure thing this was part of the French aid package to the Continental Army.

[brcampbe]

I bought this. It's a 1777 AN IX "corrected", the model commissioned by Napoleon Bonaparte in 1799/1800. It post dates the American Revolution. This is an untouched original made at the Mutzig arsenal and is a really nice piece (Mutzig is one of the 5 state arsenals approved for manufacture by Napoleon after consolidation). Had a French gentleman school me pretty well on this piece. It is most certainly a Charleville musket that armed the French army, likely seeing action in the European battles of the early 1800s.

It's certainly NOT a fowling shotgun