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C. 1700's T. Richards marked flintlock blunderbuss or Sea Service musketoon, heavy 20" iron barrel,

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Western Americana Start Price:750.00 USD Estimated At:NA
C. 1700's T. Richards marked flintlock blunderbuss or Sea Service musketoon, heavy 20  iron barrel,
or Sea Service musketoon, heavy 20" iron barrel, full walnut stock. Top of barrel, tang, lock, trigger bow and brass butt plate with fine scroll engraving. Left side brass plate with engraved hunt dogs and stag scene. Top of stock at tang area with carved shell relief above brass pineapple vacant escutcheon. Long brass trigger bow with pineapple finial,original horn tip ramrod intact. Left side of barrel with 3 stamped proof marks, stock show old French repair at wrist, left forward end with missing triangulated sliver starting at barrel end. Steel surfaces show untouched brown overall patina, brass uncleaned. Mechanically tight and functioning, 35 1/2" overall. Brought back from WWII by Elmer Clayton in 1944, NO FFL required.