Richard,
My apologies for the delay in responding. Thank you so much for the great and detailed answers to the questions I placed on these guns and some of the characteristics of the materials used.
As I begin to learn more of the history of these firearms it is been pretty exciting to add huge dimension to my lifelong passion with edged weapons.
As noted, most of what I have written has been somewhat cursory research which gave me enough perspective to at least gain some working knowledge (very limited!). The reference on only one highwayman falling to some form of coaching gun surely cannot be accurate, though it of course sounds like hubris oriented lore describing these.
Much appreciated,
Jim
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