"Jacobite" garb

**Colonel MacNeal** · 21st July 09, 10:37 PM

Woodsheal,
It looks like the same flintlock in both photos. Surely that's not right with a span of 57 years?
What flintlock is that?
Cheers, ColMac

**Jock Scot** · 22nd July 09, 03:46 AM

Originally Posted by Colonel MacNeal

Woodsheal,
It looks like the same flintlock in both photos. Surely that's not right with a span of 57 years?
What flintlock is that?
Cheers, ColMac

Nothing unusual there. The "Brown Bess" musket ,the official musket of the British army in its various forms, was used by them from about 1720 to 1838.

**Woodsheal** · 22nd July 09, 01:36 PM

Originally Posted by Colonel MacNeal

Woodsheal,
It looks like the same flintlock in both photos. Surely that's not right with a span of 57 years?
What flintlock is that?
Cheers, ColMac

It's a Dutch piece. The Scots imported lots of stuff from the Low Countries through their eastern seaports.

As for age, a span of 57 years in the life of a gun is not unusual for that period. Obsolescence is a modern concept! Muskets from the 1690s were still being used by colonists during the American Revolution....

**macwilkin** · 22nd July 09, 02:07 PM

Originally Posted by Woodsheal

It's a Dutch piece. The Scots imported lots of stuff from the Low Countries through their eastern seaports.

As for age, a span of 57 years in the life of a gun is not unusual for that period. Obsolescence is a modern concept! Muskets from the 1690s were still being used by colonists during the American Revolution....

Not to mention all of the percussion conversion flintlocks that were issued to state volunteer troops at the beginning of the Civil War.

T.