Flint to cap converted

[VTdeerhunter]

Picked up a new addition to the family. Won't tell you how much $$ to avoid the hate mail :blah:
My better half asked to stop at an antique store and I found it behind piles of junk.
I see where the pan was crudely ground off from its days as a flintlock, but there is not another mark on it I can find. 30+ years blacksmithing I'm pretty good at finding marks in steel, even have a microscope that helps....but I see nothing?
What I do know;
Overall length = 58.5"
Barrel = 44"
Weight = 7.25#
Bore = .715-.735
2 piece stock well fit together
The butt plate is brass .100" thick with (5) screws holding it in place
The lock plate has a touch mark (TO) marked twice at right angles to each other
Any ideas?

 

[curator]

Interesting old gun assembled from even older gun parts. 50 years ago one would see ones just like this in "antique" stores all over Vermont, New Hampshire and northern Maine back country. The barrel, trigger guard and lock started out as military issue, most likely European. Sometime later someone used the parts to build the gun you have. Your pictures aren't clear or close enough to show significant detail but the apparent craftsmanship rules out a professional gunsmith/builder. It will look great over someone's fireplace!

 

[vtbuck223]

Nice find. Looks like it had a long and productive life...most recently as a New England style fowler. It has the general appearance of a militia musket from the early 1800's. The trigger guard might be from an early Springfield...model 1812 or before. What does the side plate look like?

 

[Gene L]

That hammer looks like one I saw on a French gun.

 

[VTdeerhunter]

No side plate, just a screw through the wood, will add a picture soon