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To: Ditter

Those are flintlock pistol reproductions. In the displays at Yorktown and Williamsburg they also have many originals in first class condition. The flintlocks gradually replaced the matchlocks and Wheel-locks in Yorktown after 1650 and were improved until being replaced by percussion cap muzzle loaders in the 1830s and 40s. Those in the photo were of a style that stayed popular through the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Alamo. The Alamo happened the same year Sam Colt patented his revolver.

If your relic has a lock of any kind left it is valuable unless it is a tossed reproduction.

America is a country of instant nostalgia proven by the reunion at The Little Big Horn only ten years after the battle. Forensic studies of empty brass cartridge case placement at such battlefields are thrown off by brass dropped from salute volleys and reenactments while the original type of head stamped brass cartridge case was still in existence.


174 posted on 08/15/2009 7:05:03 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 ( ...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: Monterrosa-24
Mine is definatly not a reproduction and is not in good condition, no barrel and the end of the wooden part that supported the barrel has a bit broken off. It has brass on both sides with peculiar markings, brass on the butt of the handle and the trigger guard is brass with more strange markings. The wood also has designed carved on it. There is a a gunshop near me that also carries some antiques I should take it over there and ask what it is.
178 posted on 08/15/2009 7:15:34 PM PDT by Ditter
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