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A VERY GOOD+ AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR SHORTLAND PATTERN/SECOND MODEL PATTERN 1777 BROWN BESS MUSKET, ca. 1777: Regulation length, 42 inch, round, pin-fastened, iron, smoothbore, .78 caliber barrel with its top-mounted bayonet lug/sight. The breech-top with scant traces of its Two (effaced?) Board of Ordnance proof marks. Regulation Pattern 1777 lock with two screws behind its “Wartime”/notched cock/hammer. Marked "TOWER", on its tail and with a worn/effaced? Crown "GR" Royal Cypher, beneath the powder-pan. The rounded gooseneck hammer of early "Wartime" production" with a finely notched spur. In original flintlock configuration with original lock components and in mechanically functional order with a strong mainspring and fine timing. Some expected light wear/pitting in the powder-pan and around the touch-hole and a very good bore with untouched surfaces. The barrel retains a smooth & evenly toned, steel-gray-colored age patina with light scattered discoloration/salt & pepper. Very good lock with a matching, untouched brown-gray-colored patination with visible “TOWER” markings and Crown/”GR” Royal Cypher and vestigial Broad Arrow Acceptance mark. Complete with its original button-head iron ramrod and both of its sling swivels long removed. Regulation Shortland Pattern full brass hardware with an untouched mustard-toned age-patina. Four (4) brass ramrod pipes: the second pipe of “Pratt’s Improvement” of, ca. 1778/9. A "4/14" Rack/Unit Marked wrist escutcheon, a flat sideplate with a tail and the buttplate with a short three stepped tang of Regulation Shortland Pattern/Second Model Brown Bess design. The trigger-guard with a raised hazelnut forward finial. Regulation Shortland Pattern walnut fullstock with a pronounced lobe on the handrail and a well-defined fluted comb on the buttstock. Marked with Crown/ Numeric Board of Ordnance Acceptance marks, behind the trigger-guard and the right side of the buttstock with a Revolutionary War (pre-1786) Non-dated Storekeeper's mark. Also, marked with various Board of Ordnance markings, in the ramrod-channel. In overall very good+ dark & untouched original flintlock condition. The stock with sharp contours, 75%+ finish, scattered handling marks, chipping at the tail of the lock-mortise, expected abrasions, tight hairlines and minor sliver-losses. A very nice example of an American Revolutionary War Production Second Mdl. Brown Bess musket, ca. 1777. For additional information, please see DeWitt Bailey's: "Pattern Dates for British Ordnance Small Arms 1718-1783" & G. C. Neumann's: "Battle Weapons of the American Revolution". Overall length, 58”. Price: $13,775.00 |
