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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    Just got back from vacation. To post pictures I had to sign up for an account (free) with Photobucket. Follow their directions and upload a photo to your library on the Photobucket site. Click on the picture you want and to the right there will be a column of windows with all the different...
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    corrado26 Thank you so much for the info, I will print it out and keep it with the gun. I have looked for a long time and could find nothing at all so this is much appreciated. Welcome to the forum and howdy from Texas. Only the barrel length on mine is 520 mm (20 1/2"). It really does not...
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    I have not been able to find any unit markings, inside or out. The barrel has some kind of a cartouche under the wood that just looks like a rough dent now and a couple of file slash marks. There is a cartouche inside the lock plate and all I can make out is a "c". Maybe there was unit markings...
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    No flare to the outside or to the bore, must just be the camera angle.
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    Nose cap of the other gun.
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    I finally found the pictures buried deep in my computer of the other carbine that the owner was asking about on another forum. Can't remember which forum but believe it was a military history one. At that time there was no information posted about it.There are at least 2 of these out there so...
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    [/URL][/img] Better view of ramrod end and nose piece. [/URL][/img] view of inspector? marks on lockplate entry pipe [/URL][/img] view of replaced triggerguard showing outside profile of original guard. It had two rusty holes for the staple but not sure if original was made this way...
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    Thanks for the compliments on the repair. On nice old important pieces like this I try to keep as close as possible to the original. I also have a note under the buttplate pointing out the replacement parts for some future student.
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    India-Made, With A Flair

    I made a round ball mold for a customer's original 4 gauge Cape rifle. The muzzle measured to a true 4 bore (1.052" plus or minus a few thousandths) so I made the ball about .015 or so smaller for a patch. It went about 4 inches in a stuck solid. After pulling the ball I measured deeper in the...
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    I really believe I put the proper band on this gun. I have seen the dragoon pistols of the same time period with just the band around the wood and even found mention of how that was sometimes retrofitted to strengthen the wood on the end.I have on order one of the reproductions of the dragoon...
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    Thanks for the link, I replaced the the nose cap with what I thought the original looked like. It was obvious that it was thin metal. It could have gone over the barrel also but I just figured it didn't since the barrel is pinned. I've had this gun since 1989 so will get it figured out one of...
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    Wood has a chip missing. The nose cap is thin brass sheet (replacement) and the ramrod has a brass trumpet shaped end. Looks like the iron has a turned down end and the brass piece was slipped over it and peened. The iron is visible on the very end. The other end is threaded for a worm.
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    [/URL][/img] Potzdam carbine muzzle
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    I used to have what was left of an old fowler that had three lock bolts in the hand forged lock.They had number stamps 1,2,3 on the visible part of the bolt head. The only stamps on the gun except on the much later percussion hammer that has what looks like Belknap on the inside of the Bedford...
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    [/URL][/img] Carbine over all view
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    I dug the Potzdam out of the safe and measured the bore with calipers. Comes out to .66 or .675, a little worn and out of round of course. The barrel length is 20 1/2". The diameter of the barrel at the breech is 1 1/16". The lock is marked Potzdam Magaz with DSE inspector on bevel on bottom of...
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    I have three photo bucket links at the beginning of my original post. Do those work? If not I will try another way of posting a picture. New to this kind of posting and don't know how to make the pic appear.
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    Hi, The triggerguard was missing when I bought the gun and I made one from sheet brass that fit the inletting of the wood. Thanks for the link.
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    Potzdam 1740 Carbine?

    Link http://s358.photobucket.com/user/threesteps13/media/IMG_0343_zpso9eprxj5.jpg.html http://s358.photobucket.com/user/threesteps13/media/IMG_0344_zps8nzrbg9e.jpg.html This is a smaller version of a German 1740 musket I have. It is not a cut down full sized gun. The barrel is about 20 inches...
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