information & pics from
http://norskevaapen.no/?p=553
The Danes obviously were strange people that did strange things! In 1794 they introduced a new smooth bored flintlock infantry musket with total length of 142 cm. In 1807 they started producing another and less expensive version of the same musket, this time with the Kyhl’s lock (hammer on the inside of the lock plate).
In 1808 they started converting a number of the original M1794 to a 15 cm shorter version for use by short grown soldiers. Why on earth convert the M1794 instead of producing a shorter version of the M1807??? Things like this make collecting being fun!
There was produced a total of some 30 000 of the standard M1794’s. I have no records over how few were converted to M1808, but this musket seems to be fairly scarce, at least here in Norway.