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    I found an original...please help with info

    I wouldn't close the case quite yet. You could get ten different opinions from ten different kra people. Probably likewise on the internet. Ignoring the patchbox, it looks to me like a southern mountain-style rifle. Notice the overall architecture, the hardware, except the patchbox, the...
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    My Flintlock:Indian style

    It looks about right to me.
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    Can anyone identify this?

    Maybe a western PA rifle? The stock almost looks walnut with stripes burnt into it. Interesting carving on the butt stock. It almost looks like it was done by the end user rather than the gunmaker.
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    axe/tomahawk head

    Length is 6 1/2 inches. The cutting edge of the blade is just about 2 inches.
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    axe/tomahawk head

    It weighs 11.3 ounces. It would be hard for me to place this thing with a 20th century born-on date. The patina and pitting just looks to good for that, though I'm no expert. IMHO it could very well be an earlier piece, just of quality european origin.
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    axe/tomahawk head

    Just FYI, it may be hard to tell, but the piece is very lightweight.
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    axe/tomahawk head

    This was, of course, my thoughts exactly. But it wouldn't be the first time that I have had someone say, yeah I know what that is, and have it be some sort of cooking tool. :haha:
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    axe/tomahawk head

    I picked this this up at a KRA show a few years back. Don't worry I don't have a theory on this one and I promise not to argue with, or attack, anybody who does. :headslap: No information on it to provide. I have shown it to a couple of people who are respected on this topic, but they didn't...
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    Officers fusil?

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    Officers fusil?

    I thought this was a "firearms research" board for such discussion? I have tried to do my own research, but this is not exactly something heavily documented. I have only seen a couple of guns like this, none of which have been in published books that I know of.
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    Officers fusil?

    Whether or not he was trying to sell the gun I tend to believe him more than I would you. Mr. Thayer actively researches and publishes his work. He is also a member of the KRA, which would likely have a problem with him intentionally putting out false information in order to sell a gun. He...
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    Officers fusil?

    Thank you. I do appreciate that. I do agree that pretty much every officer's fusil I have seen published has a bayonet lug and cutback. The more I learn and look at the gun, the more I am convinced that it was a native-used gun. Almost every native-used trade gun I have come across has been...
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    Officers fusil?

    I think that's the difference between the collecting world that I'm in and the one that they are in. I am used to research and knowledge being shared. That's the difference between collectors and dealers/gunmakers. Some are in it to make a living, and some are in it to learn and have fun. I...
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    Penobscot War Club

    Are you positive that this is grey birch? The Guthman clubs were IIRC made out of spruce. FWIW, even with true period war clubs there will be people who tell you that they are fakes or contemporary. I have seen war clubs sell to people for 5 figures, and then people turn around behind the...
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    Officers fusil?

    That doesn't change the fact that neither you nor he has offered one shred of documentation for your opinions. What am I supposed to use as documentation? "Two guys on the internet told me X?" I found information on my own, which was different from what I was told, except for the stocking date...
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    Officers fusil?

    If both Mr. Brooks and Puleo are so knowledgeable, which I don't doubt that they are, why can't they support their claims by pointing to at least one published example? After all, Mr. Brooks claimed that all I needed were books on English guns. Both of them are the ones who ganged up on me...
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    Officers fusil?

    I was quoting Thayer: The "Dragon" side-plate maybe the oldest part of the gun. (Gooding, S.J., 2006, TradeGuns of the Hudson’s Bay Company, Museum Restoration Service, Alexandria bay, NY) It dates c. 1720. I never claimed to collect English guns though I do have a large amount of books on all...
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    Penobscot War Club

    The red paint and carving don't look very old, at least not in those photos. Do you have any larger photos? Regardless, to find that at a barn sale is pretty awesome. I sure as heck would have bought it. Even to get somebody to make you a contemporary one to hang on your wall would cost...
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    Officers fusil?

    The rectangular washer is there. But it doesn't have the bolt/screw protruding from it like the Thayer gun. These two guns have different triggers. Thayer notes that the trigger on his gun is backwards and somewhat improvised.
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    Officers fusil?

    Yes, but the earlier "thoughts" purported to be based on the hardware. Thayer dates the hardware earlier than 1790. Maybe he is dating it based on the barrel? That is why I was interested in the earlier post that the "London" stamp "screamed" late 18th century.
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