What Is This?

Tatsumi67 · March 19, 2010, 04:04 PM

I'm not sure if this should be here or in C&R
I received a package in the mail today from the estate of a friend of the family today, and it was this flintlock pistol. The only markings on it are TOWER, EIG JAPAN and GR with a crown emblem.

Should I get it appraised? Is it worth anything? What is it?

Hawg · March 19, 2010, 04:29 PM

It's a cheap copy of a .69 Tower flintlock smoothbore. Japan imported them by the thousands in the 70's. Dixie Gun Works used to sell them for I think 49.00 in 72. The frizzens are soft and don't spark well. Dixie said in their catalog for 10.00 more they'd tune the locks to make them spark. If the lock throws a good shower of sparks have fun with it, if it doesn't it will make a nice display.

Tatsumi67 · March 19, 2010, 04:40 PM

Yeah that makes sense. The trigger wobbled and everything about it seems loose and corny. Guess I'll put it up on the wall under my Baby Dragoon.

Fingers McGee · March 19, 2010, 06:40 PM

What Hawg said

FM

TXGunNut · March 21, 2010, 01:10 PM

Looks like a first-rate wallhanger. I like it..

March 19, 2010, 04:04 PM	#1
Tatsumi67 Senior Member Join Date: December 30, 2007 Posts: 575	What Is This? I'm not sure if this should be here or in C&R I received a package in the mail today from the estate of a friend of the family today, and it was this flintlock pistol. The only markings on it are TOWER, EIG JAPAN and GR with a crown emblem. Should I get it appraised? Is it worth anything? What is it? __________________ "Do what you can, what you want, what you must,feel the hunger inside, just don't lose your trust" - KMFDM, Trust. NRA Member,Minnesota State Safety Certified, Eagle Scout Currently schemeing on an AR-15 build.

March 19, 2010, 04:40 PM	#3
Tatsumi67 Senior Member Join Date: December 30, 2007 Posts: 575	Yeah that makes sense. The trigger wobbled and everything about it seems loose and corny. Guess I'll put it up on the wall under my Baby Dragoon. __________________ "Do what you can, what you want, what you must,feel the hunger inside, just don't lose your trust" - KMFDM, Trust. NRA Member,Minnesota State Safety Certified, Eagle Scout Currently schemeing on an AR-15 build.

March 19, 2010, 06:40 PM	#4
Fingers McGee Senior Member Join Date: March 19, 2008 Location: High & Dry in Missouri Ozarks Posts: 2,113	What Hawg said FM __________________ Fingers (Show Me MO smoke) McGee - AKA Man of Many Colts - Alter ego of Diabolical Ken; SASS Regulator 28564-L-TG; Rangemaster and stage writer extraordinaire; Frontiersman, Pistoleer, NRA Endowment Life, NMLRA, SAF, CCRKBA, STORM 327, SV115; Charter member, Central Ozarks Western Shooters Cynic: A blackguard whose faulty vision see things as they are, not as they should be. Ambrose Bierce

March 21, 2010, 01:10 PM	#5
TXGunNut Senior Member Join Date: January 16, 2010 Location: If you have to ask... Posts: 2,860	Looks like a first-rate wallhanger. I like it.. __________________ Life Member NRA, TSRA Smokeless powder is a passing fad! -Steve Garbe I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it. -Woodrow F. Call Lonesome Dove My favorite recipes start out with a handful of used wheelweights.

March 19, 2010, 04:29 PM	#2
Hawg Senior Member Join Date: September 8, 2007 Location: Mississippi Posts: 16,189	It's a cheap copy of a .69 Tower flintlock smoothbore. Japan imported them by the thousands in the 70's. Dixie Gun Works used to sell them for I think 49.00 in 72. The frizzens are soft and don't spark well. Dixie said in their catalog for 10.00 more they'd tune the locks to make them spark. If the lock throws a good shower of sparks have fun with it, if it doesn't it will make a nice display.