I find it interesting that this monster has a fifty-four-inch barrel. The Long Land Musket had forty-six inches and was superceded bout 1750 or so by the Short Land Musket, a mere forty-two inches.

This interests me because I have a fowler wth a Third Model Brown Bess lock, all done up as if for the military but for the fifty-six-inch barrel and stocked right to the muzzle. It has no markings visible except for the remains of London proofs (it was in a marine environment for 180 years). It s a bolster-type percussion conversion and is an 11-bore. It can be dated positively by the name and date carved into the woodwork, so it is roughly in the 1820 - 1822 period and was made up from Napoleonic War surplus parts for the Colonial trade. The original owner was quite famous in his time as the last pirate in the New World.

I am thinking that it is possible that the gun you ARE getting might be something akin to this monster of mine. It will be good to see pics and it will be even better to know that it has a good home at last. Buy them both; Napoleon might come back and you could NEED that second shot!
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