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03-29-2011, 09:41 PM | #4 | ||||||
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03-29-2011, 11:06 PM | #5 | ||||||
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Go to my albums and see it!
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03-29-2011, 11:11 PM | #6 | ||||||
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It looks to me like it says "Henry Parker" on the side plate.
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03-29-2011, 11:26 PM | #7 | ||||||
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You are absolutely right! It goes better with the srory That I was told about how this weapon was one of the first conversions for the government from open ignition to percussion. Who was Henry Parker? Thanks, Bill
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03-30-2011, 05:55 AM | #8 | ||||||
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Henry Parker was not a gun maker but was a lock maker in Trenton NJ and died in 1860.
I just learned this by going to GOOGLE and typing in "henry parker gun maker". |
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03-30-2011, 07:56 AM | #9 | ||||||
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Well I wonder if it was a conversion when did cap lock get common. neet gun! can you see a name on barrel
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03-30-2011, 09:54 AM | #10 | ||||||
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I don't see a name. I see US and other proof marks. They used Flint locks until the 1830's
Then they converted many of them to percussion. I am told by the former owner that this was one of the first government conversions? Anyway it is a beautiful work of art. It belongs in a museum. IT has been in a glass case hanging on a wall for the last twenty five years. the condition is remarkable. Lockmakers made sidelocks for weapons Thanks for all your help! |
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