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Old December 29, 2013, 08:44 PM   #4
James K
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That gun is not a U.S. musket, it is a hunting shotgun made up by someone at some time, using an old musket barrel and a stock with a back action lock, probably taken from an old shotgun. It is very unlikely to have been used in that form by any military organization for any purpose. It may be old, and the parts even older, but its value is negligible. It might make an interesting wall hanger, with story to match ("My great great great grandfather shot Indians/British/Rebels with that thar gun, yessir!).

NWP is the stamp of Nahum W. Patch, listed as a Springfield Armory sub-inspector, who inspected (among other guns) Model 1816 contract muskets, which is likely where the barrel came from. The maker of the original musket would have been marked on the long-gone original lockplate. U.S. muskets never used back action locks.

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