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Spanish colonial escopeta musketoon, early 1800s.

Currency:USD Category:Artifacts / Non-wreck Artifacts Start Price:400.00 USD Estimated At:500.00 - 700.00 USD
Spanish colonial escopeta musketoon, early 1800s.
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Spanish colonial escopeta musketoon, early 1800s. 2309 grams, 30" overall length, 15-1/2" barrel length. Miquelet-lock style small musket originally using flint and converted to percussion circa 1840 and typical of guns used by Spanish frontier military to protect settlements and ranches in the southwest. Mostly functioning lock has file and engraved decoration, faint maker's marks; steel barrel is octagon-to-round with bell-mouthed muzzle containing ring-turned and engraved decoration, modern metal-cuff repair, no ramrod; walnut stock with simple iron mounts, small plug repairs here and there. With photo-certificate.