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Blackpowder
muskets and pistols - 18th and 19th centuries
France - England - USA - Powder flasks Please do contact us for availability and delivery time |
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Our copies are absolutely true to the originals : size, weight, marks... The firing mechanism is totally functional (the flint is not provided with the gun, though). The vent is not drilled, and the muskets cannot be used for firing. Please read our warning section if you intend to drill it. |
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| The beginning of the 18th century showed a great improvement in the french army muskets, with the etablishing of a standardized model, the 1717, destined to replace all the various models in use in the french army. He is equiped with a bayonet, following Vauban's advice of 1707. Our copy is equiped
with a steel ramrod. |
MQ101 - French
infantry musket 1728,
1746 modified - 450€ |
| The 1717 was soon modified under M de Vallière, to become the 1728 musket. This weapon is a fine example of the elegant curves in musket stocks in the early 18th century. Note especially the shape of the butt. He will beimproved again in the 1740s, with the standardized use of a steel ramrod in 1743 and, after 1746, the removing of the pan/frizzen bridle.This another copy is soon to be sold. This weapon was carried
by the majority of French troops during the French and Indian War, including
the well known "Compagnies franches de la Marine" and the "Regiment
de Béarn". |
MQ100
- French infantry Charleville
1777 musket with bayonet, An IX modified
type - 450€
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Length without bayonet 153cm, weigth 4.70kg. Bayonet's length 46cm, weigth 0.32kg. Heigth of the gun with bayonet 192cm. 17.1mm caliber. The frizzen cover is case hardened, and the seamless tempered barrel is made of high carbon steel (type:BS970 no.080M40). The breech is threaded. You may buy
the firing mechanisme alone.
Reference is MQ150, price is 170€. Of course, if you take the gun
MQ100, it is included ! |
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MQ110
- French Cavalry Flintlock Carbine (1777 / AN IX model) - 430€
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| Introduced
during the American Revolution, the carbine offered Light cavalry a short,
light, and versatile firearm for close quarter fighting - the typical
situation for Light Dragoons and Hussars.
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MQ108
- Blunderbuss - 380€  |
| In the early 1700s the blunderbussstarted to become popular as a weapon for close quarters because of its ability to deliver a blast of shot or buck and ball. Numerous armies and navies produced various versions of this item all the way into the 1840s. However its zenith seems to have been in the mid-1700s when it was used both by soldiers, sailors, and civilians as a means of defence in close quarters. On board ship often the steel barrels were blackened, or made of brass, as our copy is. As one could imagine, this item was ideal for fighting on ship particularly in repealing of enemy boarding parties. Barrel made of brass,
threaded breech made of steel.. |
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first standardized cavlary pistol was defined by the 1733 royal act. It
was produced by several different manufacturers, with small variations,
but all had this typical shape, immediately remaining the beginning of
the 17tf century.A clip is used to hold the pistol on a belt. Length 50cm, weigth 1.1kg. |
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pistol is one of the ancestor of the famous an IX pistol. The shape of
the weapon is typical for 18th centuries ones. A clip is used to hold
the pistol on a belt. |
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| Bonaparte asked in 1800 a commitee made of artillerymen and weapeon's factories' engineers to conceive a new pistol. The old kinds, as the 1763-1766 one, were in fact too delicate for military duty. The an IX pistol was born... Introduced in 1801 this famous pistol graced the holsters of Napoleon's cavalry at the height of the 1st Empire. In battle this pistol was used both for volley fire and close quarter fighting with other cavalry. As well it proved useful in inflicting harm on packed enemy infantry defensive squares. While another, lighter pistol began to be manufactured in 1807, the "AN IX" pistol continued to be used in Napoleon's cavalry until the end of the Empire in 1815. Shorter than the old
ones, his length is 352 mm, his weigth 1.290kg, has a 17.1mm caliber (7
lines 7 points), the barrel is 201mm long. Note the shape of the grip,
which ends with a brass piece, in order to allow the gun to be used as
a kind of truncheon, when shot. 66.000
pieces were produced between 1801 and 1807. |
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MQ109
- 1795 Springfield Flintlock Infantry Musket - 430€  |
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MQ107
- Brow Bess Musket, indian pattern - 430€  |
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lighter and shorter versio of the 1756 brow bess musket was first used
by the East India Company armies - hence its name. Adopted by the board
of ordnance in 1797, 3 millions of it were manufactured, and it equipped
most of his majesty armies during the napoleonic wars. |
MQ103
- Baker Rifle - 450€
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The Baker rifle is the first real British-made and conceived rifle. It was selected in 1800 to equip the new and experimental rifle corps. These units were employed as an addition to the skirmishers light companies of the battalions. They were used to weaken and disrupt the waiting enemy lines, but with the greater range and accuracy provided by the Baker rifle, british troops got a real advantage upon their french conterparts... The Baker rifled musket
is a .625-caliber rifle (16mm), has a 30inches barrel, fitted for a sword
bayonet, is equipped with a rear sight, and has a very smooth trigger
for accuracy. The essential cleaning equipment is stored in the gun's
butt. |
| MQ132 - Scottish Highland Pistol ( Murdoch Style) - 320€ Pistols were considered requisite items for the Highland soldier as early as the 1730s. By the 1740s the elegant pistol styles of Christie & Murdoch (armourers of Doune, Stirlingshire) had became the most sought after amongst Highland officers. The unique elements of the Doune pistols were the scroll or rams horn butt, fluted barrels at the breech and the octagonal flared muzzles. Our replica represents one of the many copies made at that time by scottish pistol makers. The steel pistol was used in the ranks of Highland Regiments into the 1780s, when a less expensive (and less elegant) bronze pistol began to challenge the dominance of the steel version in the ranks of Britain's Highland Regiments. By the mid-1790s Highland Regiments had abondoned their pistols. Highland sergeants and men wore one steel pistol under the left arm, hung through the pistol's belt hook on a thin buff leather belt. |
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MQ123 - Royal Navy Sea Service Pistol 1756 - 1815 - 320€ By the second half of the 18th century a model of sea service pistol began to dominate amongst the tars of Britain's navy. The sea service
pistols offered here (12 inch barrel) saw extensive use during the the
French and Indian War, the American Revolution and the Nelson's adventures
during the Napoleonic Wars. During the 1790s, the barrel was shortened
to 9 inches making it more convenient in the tangled mêlées
experienced by boarding parties. The shortened version is often referred
to as the East India Co. Sea Service Pistol because they were the first
to shorten it. This is the copy we offer. |
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MQ124 - English Flintlock Dragoon Pistol - 320€ Inspired by Prussian designs of the time, this model of Dragoon pistol was common amongst Britain's mounted troops throughout the 18th Century. When a Light Dragoon pistol was developed in the 1760s, this pistol was relegated to the Heavy Dragoons. However the true
claim to fame of this elegant pistol came prior to this. During the
War of the Austrian Succession (King George's War), British Dragoon
regiments such as the Royal Dragoons, King's Dragoons, and Royal Scots
Greys saw service in at the Battles of Dettingen and Fontenoy. At the
victory at Dettingen, the Dragoons are noted as firing a volley from
their pistols to check a charge by French cavalry. The defeat at Roucoux
in 1746 and at Lauffeld in 1747 could have turned into disasters if
it were not for the heroic actions of the British cavalry which held
off the French while the army retreated. |
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Made
of copper, with a brass
cork permitting four different powder doses, our flasks are copies
of 19th century british ones. Fully functionnal. |
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