What do ya think?

[Southpaw]

Curiosity is getting the best of me this morning. Just typed in french flintlock pistols and same across several images. I think during that era there were no real patents and eurpopean guns could look similar from all around. They all had so called industry best pratices and one maker did something that stood out then everybody may adopt it, so hard to tell if something is maybe one style over another. I do think that fleu de lis is telling though suggesting french origins.

Anyway cool story and thanks for sharing. Hope you find out something interesting about it.

BTW we have an old gun in family made by Ogden brothers out of New York. We think it was made in 1840's or 50's. There is almost an exact duplicate of gun that is in museum out west of similar gun given to Jim Bridgier with his name on it that was also made by Ogden Brothers. Its a cool old gun.