Jason60chev
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Hello,
I saw this flintlock "carbine" posted for sale and have been trying to identify its features.....
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/925326642
The lockplate is marked "Charleville".......I can really not make out the script above that.
It has a brass pan, indicative to the 1777.
Seller believes it to be mostly an original piece and possibly cut down from a musket.
The stock does not look like a 1777 and there is no dished out area on the left side. On the right side,
just ahead of the rear band, appears to be a filler where the band spring was. The butt also appears to have been shortened
and is at a different angle. The top of the butt plate does not appear to be standard anything, that I have seen....possibly modified
for the contour of the shortened butt?
Anyway......can any of y'all help me to identify what this IS or ISN'T. I like this length of firearm.
Thank you
I saw this flintlock "carbine" posted for sale and have been trying to identify its features.....
https://www.gunbroker.com/item/925326642
The lockplate is marked "Charleville".......I can really not make out the script above that.
It has a brass pan, indicative to the 1777.
Seller believes it to be mostly an original piece and possibly cut down from a musket.
The stock does not look like a 1777 and there is no dished out area on the left side. On the right side,
just ahead of the rear band, appears to be a filler where the band spring was. The butt also appears to have been shortened
and is at a different angle. The top of the butt plate does not appear to be standard anything, that I have seen....possibly modified
for the contour of the shortened butt?
Anyway......can any of y'all help me to identify what this IS or ISN'T. I like this length of firearm.
Thank you