Richard:
Thank you for your observations. (and thank you all for your welcome to this forum)
Upon your recommendation; I just ordered the Schumway book.
I am curious. As you have said this rifle was made in the Brandenburg area; are we not to consider it attributed to Johann Michael Maucher of Schwabisch-Gemund? It's a considerable distance between the two places. ( I dare not dismantle the rifle looking for the initials that appear on Cornelistromp's piece) Or is it that Maucher; being a stock-maker, supplied these components to gun-makers as far reaching as Brandenburg?
The barrel length (excluding the 4.1cm tang) is 67.2 cm. The caliber is 16mm with a rifling depth of 1.5mm.
I have attached photos of the plate opposite the lock as well as the muzzle.
Also; interestingly the butt plate has an engraved serial number. I'm not sure if that would indicate (as modern serial numbers do) that there are at least 37 others produced in the identical manner? or could it indicate this is the 38th rifle which this particular gun-maker made.
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