painted stock

[little joe]

Recently at the Buffalo Bill Museum in Cody Wy. I saw a blunderbuss with a black painted stock and barrel. What is you fellows openion on painted stocks?  (Blunderbuss,trade gun. rifles ect.)

[Hungry Horse]

Painted stocks, and barrels, were pretty common on sea service weapons, clear up through the civil war. Blunderbusses were a pretty common weapon aboard ship as well. My guess is this short scattergun is off of a ship originally.

                 Hungry Horse

[Acer Saccharum]

A Lehigh at the J Henry museum is painted red, as in milk paint. Pretty cool.

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[Pete G.]

A painted gun sort of reminds me of those old pickups that someone painted with a brush. It works, but it is definitely not a thing of beauty.

[Acer Saccharum]

It's surprising what good architecture can do. Beauty transcends decoration, materials, and finish. 

[Chris Treichel]

I have read some accounts of trade guns being painted to hide the fact that the wood was junk.  Let me take a look to see what I can find what I recollect. 

Here we go... from Historical Trekking discussion... http://www.historicaltrekking.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=8368&sid=f07cedbe2682ba28dccc1c028c8caa71

[Keb]

There are these too.
Blue Guns

[Gaeckle]

Ihave an old original that is painted red.....the paint is worn from handling marks and the wood beneatrh it is some nice maple with curl.

[Chris Treichel]

I don't understand why someone would want to paint over nice wood... suppose that is just personal opinion. 

[dannybb55]

There are these too.
Blue Guns
[/quote Those sre Clay Smith's trade guns. cool.

[dannybb55]

There are these too.
Blue Guns
[/quote Those sre Clay Smith's trade guns. cool.

[/quote Because it sold well.