OldSarge79
Sergeant
- Joined
- Jul 12, 2017
- Location
- Pisgah Forest, North Carolina
A young man walked into the Asheville gun show yesterday with, what I believe at least started out as a Model 1808 Contract musket. It was passed down to him by his grandfather, with no idea who in the family originally had it. He just wanted to know what he had, with a thought of possibly selling it at some point.
It's a percussion conversion, rather crudely done, with a civilian-size nipple in a barrel-shaped bolster. Definitely not an arsenal job .
The cut for the barrel tang is longer than the tang. And what kind of wood is this? I would suspect it's a re-stock, but it has a cartouche on the flat, albeit a very odd one.
Has anyone seen a cartouche like this?
Other thoughts on this piece?
It's a percussion conversion, rather crudely done, with a civilian-size nipple in a barrel-shaped bolster. Definitely not an arsenal job .
The cut for the barrel tang is longer than the tang. And what kind of wood is this? I would suspect it's a re-stock, but it has a cartouche on the flat, albeit a very odd one.
Has anyone seen a cartouche like this?
Other thoughts on this piece?