British Musketoon & Pistol

[Fernando K]

Hello

In my opinion, these are two weapons, not regulatory, but similar. The barrel of the musket (cavalry, artillery?) lacks test punches. The ramrod is held by a spring, which fits into a channel in a thickening, as in some regulation models. The piece with a perforation in front of the trigger guard looks like the one that held a chain in later percussion models, so as not to lose a trigger guard. The lock with the inscription BARNETT and a crown, thus refers to a piece assembled with different pieces, but vintage, and sold to countries at war by English gunsmiths.

As for the pistol, although it has a barrel with what appear to be marks of the test punch (two crowned scepters) of the tower and a punch with the reigning monarch (GR) and the wide arrow indicating ownership of the Crown, the lock is not of a regulatory model. Notice the priming pan, faceted like the civilian models and fastened by screws instead of being welded or forged, the counter-plate with a military design, although it lacks a stock pommel

For me, it was about two weapons sold in times of scarcity
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