I've posted this before, but it's an original rifle in about .36 caliber. Sorry about the poor quality of the picture, but it's the best I can do. Needs cleaning up and restoring. The mainspring doesn't work
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Wow, that’s super nice.
Nice, any history on it??
No history that I know of. It's owned by a couple of wealthy women, who knew the maker and had apparently done some research, but I forget his name. I offered advice about cleaning it up and further offered to get it photoed for submission to Muzzleloader, and they expressed some interest, but never called me back. It had all the bells and whistles, and a early American Eagle inlet (the skinny kind of bird). It had lots of handling marks on it, and the patchbox had been polished with brasso, as you can tell from the screw heads.
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I think it's magnificent.
To clear things up, I should have said "They knew who the maker was," not "They knew the maker."
Well, I'd first clean up the brass screw slots with a toothbrush. I'd fix the lock and steam out some handling marks on the stock...nothing major. Definitely no sandpaper involved. From what I could see of the bore, I didn't find any rust. But it's likely there is some down-bore.
Keep the Brasso away from the brass. You don't want to loose value by taking away the patina of the original rifle. A bit of brushing with a soft tooth brush to clean some of the gunk out of the screw slots might be in order, but certainly no aggressive cleaning.
IIRC, only the one side with the patchbox had been polished. Apparently on the side that showed. The women were told it was valuable, but said they didn't need money. I'll never get a chance to clean it.
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