Authentic Musket
Description
- Media Type
- Image
- Text
- Item Type
- Rifles
- Description
- This is a modified percussion cap muzzle loader .75 gauge musket. It has a shorter gun stock and barrel, as well as a metal ramrod thimble addition. It was unearthed on a farm in Smithville, Ontario in the 1940s. It is the standard size for British musket barrels and balls and the stamp indicates it was manufactured in Belgium.
- Date of Original
- 1840-1860
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 43.95977 Longitude: -78.16515
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- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Cobourg Museum FoundationEmail:info@cobourgmuseum.ca
Website:
Agency street/mail address:c/o Victoria Hall, 55 King Street West
Cobourg, ON K9A 2M2 Phone number: 19053737222
