Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. Originally manufactured in France about 1740 this commercially made fowling piece is in .62 caliber. The original barrel length was 50" barreled with overall length at approximately 67. However once George Washington started organizing the Continental Army to oppose the British this musket was pressed into military service. Therefore, the barrel was reduced to 43" making the overall length 59". The musket's early 1740 period lock was updated with a French 1763 lock and a military style side plate was fitted.
The brass mounts are just as they were from the 1740s manufacture. The lock plate is externally no longer marked however across the brass butt plate tang it has been engraved by using a pin punch: S.O. 1791 almost certainly the initials of the owner with the date he acquired it.
As it happens almost an identical musket, not shortened for military service, is illustrated on page 209 of George Neumann's BATTLE WEAPONS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION and was part of the owner's collection.
Offered in very nice condition. The gun is mechanically functional and has a lovely, unaltered look to it overall. These guns saw service on both sides during the war. Original flintlock Revolutionary War muskets are rarely found in such a nice state of preservation and this is one musket than any serious collector would be glad to add to their collection of Colonial era arms.
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- This product is available for international shipping.
IMA considers all of our antique guns as non-firing, inoperable and/or inert. Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 921(a)(16) defines antique firearms as all guns made prior to 1899. This law exempts antique firearms from any form of gun control or special engineering because they are not legally considered firearms. No FFL, C&R or any license is required to posses, transport, sell or trade Antique guns. All rifles and muskets sold by IMA that were manufactured prior to 1899 are considered Antiques by the US BATF (United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms). Therefore, all of IMA's Antique guns may be shipped to all US States and most nations around the world.
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