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My cousin who does reenactments sent me a text someone she knows is selling a Holland & Holland Brown Bess replica. I haven’t a clue and still looking for a Charlieville. Anyway fire away I am waiting on photos and description etc which I’ll post. Question being the company Holland & Holland is it quality or junk. Junk i would pass on it.
Thanks and I will post pics. I am not posting to sell it I’m posting if it’s good enough to buy.
 
Holland and Holland makes the finest guns in the world. Only problem that you would have with it is that it will likely cost more than a very nice new car.
 
Thank you. I’m waiting on the pics to post and the price. It’s Christmas time I’ll push it with the wife lolol was goinkg to get instead my M16a1 upper for my clone build.....but I rather get the Bess. But it sounds like it may be unaffordable, but I’ll wait for a reply on it to be certain
 
Rod Man, definitely not the same Brown Bess from that past link. I got photos and for curiosity of some I posted a few. It is a Holland and Holland. I walked away without any offer never asked for a price, figuring not only one maybe both kidneys might suffice a sale price lolol. It is one beautiful Musket that looks like its spent its time on a wall never fired. So my quest will continue. Thanks all.
 

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I had an H&H Brown Bess. It was kind of a mixed bag for me. The barrel was absolutely top notch, and even had london proof marks. The wood to metal fit was perfect. The down side is that it doesn't really follow an ordnance pattern. It's sort of a 1756 Pattern, but the lock has no bridal, so seems to be following a very early pattern, but the lockplate is straight. It could follow a commercial Bess. I do have an original Watkin commercial Bess that was made 1745 or earlier that has an unbridled frizzen and a straight lockplate. It has a wooden ramrod. The lock itself, at least on the one I had, looked very nice, but it's functionality left a lot to be desired. I had to fit a stronger mainspring, reharden the frizzen, and refit a different cock, as the angle was just a bit off on it and I couldn't just bend it to the proper angle. Anyway I am aware of H&H quality, and I think that they had a hand in making these, but not totally.
 
Here is the H&H I had. I would buy it if you got a good price on it. What I had considered on mine was to just change the lock to a 1756 pattern, but the lockplates were not even close to being the same. Those H&H Bess locks are unique and don't really interchange with anything else. The plate shape is not really curved like the 1742ish style but too curved to be a later style. I had even thought of drilling for a wooden rod to make it a more convincing earlier commercial style. But if you tinker with it you could diminish the value of it too. But they are H&H, so that is something.
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One could always weld or have someone weld on a piece of steel to the pan to turn it from a single bridle to a double bridle lock.

My question would be what caliber and length of barrel is it?

Gus
 

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