Hi all, new here as you can probably tell if post count is enabled (that's how new I am, I haven't even looked).
Anyway, I was at my grandparents tonight and asked my Granda what guns he had in his gun cupboard. He said he had one very old one that he was given from an old woman a long time ago. He said it could of been given to her husband.
He showed me it and it is some kind of flintlock - I remember studying them when I studied the Jacobites in Primary school. You pour the gunpowder in the top and push it down with the rod (which is underneath the barrel) then you put some on the lock piece and pull it back etc...
I tried it and it works very well, it still has a piece of flint still in it which sparks!
Here is a picture
Any ideas on where this has come from or how much it could be worth?
also to add,
Marking, it had 2 markings on the barrel that looked like a crown with 2 swords crossed below it
it also had a something written on the side which I have a picture off which I may upload it said "Fogelberg" - I think it is a name.
other than that there are no markings/writing from what I saw, but it is very well etched/decorated all over in the wood and the metal.
Thanks a lot to all responses
Seamus
*edit*
another pic