Composite Continental Flintlock Musket Marked Douglas

.76 caliber. 42.5" pinned barrel. NSN. Bright finish brass furniture, hardwood stock. Single shot muzzleloading reconverted flintlock musket assembled from parts. Germanic or Low Countries style flat faceted banana shaped lock is unmarked and reconverted to flint with an added pan, frizzen, cock and external parts. Barrel is engraved DOVGLAS (Douglas) on the top, and while the engraving is old, it may not be contemporary to the manufacture of the barrel. Barrel also of Germanic or Low Countries style with a low 1" long brass blade front sight about 3.5" from the muzzle and the indication that a socket bayonet lug was located about 1" from the muzzle under the barrel, but is now missing. Touchhole does not align well with the pan. Brass components are similarly Low Countries in styling. Parts are assembled into a stretched stock that may be of cherry from the entry pipe back, with the forend a spliced addition of more recent vintage. Metal parts are somewhat ill-fitted to the wood, no side plate is employed and the stock shows some repairs in addition to the spliced forend. It not clear if this is a restoration of an old, period of use American restock of salvaged gun parts, or if the combination of the parts took place in a more recent era. Includes an old iron button head ramrod. {ANTIQUE}

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Condition
Fair as assembled. Bore rusted. Metal heavily oxidized with scattered surface roughness, discoloration and some pitting. Lock is mechanically functional. Wood sanded and refinished, with some major repairs at the rear of the lock, upper portion of the counterpane and upper wrist area, as well as a stretched forend. A crack runs from the buttplate along the toe line of the stock for about 2". Wood with numerous scattered bumps, dings and mars.