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Brass musket or blunderbuss buttplate engraved "Capt Mansvelt," 1700s.

Currency:USD Category:Artifacts / Non-wreck Artifacts Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 750.00 USD
Brass musket or blunderbuss buttplate engraved  Capt Mansvelt,  1700s.
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Brass musket or blunderbuss buttplate engraved "Capt Mansvelt," 1700s. 180 grams, 5" to 6" to a side. The well-preserved buttplate of what must have been an immense rifle, the wood and iron long gone leaving parts like this one, found by a family of North Sea commercial fisherman, the main attraction being a neatly engraved CAPT MANSVELT on one side, presumably referring to Edward Mansvelt (various spellings), who was one of the informal early leaders of the "brethren of the coast" in Tortuga and Jamaica in the mid-1600s, in fact the immediate predecessor to Captain Henry Morgan himself. With photo-certificate.