American Revoluntionary War Period American Made Musket, ca 1760's-1770's

This musket is an octagonal to round, pin-fastened, 46" smoothbore, .78 caliber, American -made barrel with a bottom-mounted bayonet lug and an iron front sight: the top of the breech has an "N/35" American unit marking. It is a finely carved and molded, New England form Roman-Nose Applewood (?) fullstock with raised carving around the lock mortise, a raised beavertail apron at the barrel-tang and a lobe at the ramrod entry. The sheet brass furniture is colonial manufactured. The buttplate with a long steeped tang is American-made sheet-brass barrel-form ramrod pipes and a raised Charlesville type sideplate signed a "W. Perkins" owner's name. The trigger-guard has a flat flared forward finial and no provision for a sling swivel. The signed, American-made lock has rounded surfaces, a bridled powder-pan and a gooseneck hammer: the face with a worn "SHEPPARD" signature.  The lock with all of its components, matching surfaces is in mechanically functional order. The overall length is 62" and this musket has its original iron ramrod.

French and Indian Era Musket

Circa 1761 and possibly American made. It closely resembles the fowler made by John Page of Preston, Connecticut in Battles of the American Revolution by George Neumann. (page 144)

Image from Antique Arms at Antique Associates of West Townsend.

Guns at Auction

Items for auction at Stockholms Auktionsverk.

1760 English Fowler with Silver Wire Inlay

Full figured walnut stock with raised carving on lock and side-plate plateaus; very nice fan and scroll carving surrounding tang. The comb and drop combined create a wonderful architecture. The sock is magnificently decorated with silver wire inlay; tiny turnip like vegetable-like devices add whimsy; tiny floral devices...quatrefoil and leaf-like devices are inlayed within wirework as are tiny silver pins used as terminus devices. The wirework decoration is behind tang of trigger guard and both sides of stock; wirework decoration surrounds shell carving, also at swell behind first pipe; and centering middle barrel key...with only traces remaining at muzzle. The bright finish barrel with gold bushed touch-hole is 37-inches long and has cast scroll decoration on its top at breech end; within the decoration is a "P" within oval, crown over "IP" and a "V" within oval with the only other mark being the name "Tims" on lockplate. The lock-plate, cock, jaw; cock and tang screw heads and frizzen were cast with beautiful decoration as depicted. The tang with a touch of gold gracefully widens at breech and is relieved at center forming integral rear sighting; bead sight at muzzle is set into iron inlay. The trigger has two scrolled spurs; trigger guard is cast decorated with shaped forend being a shell and leafy design; extra long tang. Openwork silver side-plate with floral festoons, baskets of flowers and fruits and diapering. Three iron barrel wedges, iron pipes and iron butt-plate decorated with panoply of arms beneath swaged drapery and Rocco devices. The rammer appears to be original. (Overall length: 52.75-inches.)

Copy and images from Antique Associates at West Townsend.