Maybe it was the owner of the gun that just put his own name on the muzzle. ?
My little knowledge is that a lot of the early muzzleloaders were not even marked with the maker of the whole gun at all. If they were, they maybe on one of the barrel flats or on the lock. But a name on the lock could just be the maker of the lock. Not the maker of the rifle as a whole.
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