New England Militia Flintlock Musket

.69 caliber. 39" pinned barrel with baluster turned rings at breech. NSN. Bright finish, brass furniture, walnut stock. Single shot flintlock muzzleloading smoothbore dual purpose militia fowler musket with socket bayonet lug on top of barrel 1.25" from muzzle, no sights, three ramrod pipes and a button head steel ramrod. Externally unmarked flint lock with light floral engraving has an integral rounded and fenced, unbridled pan and a flat faceted swan neck cock. Lock remains in original flint and is marked KETLAND on the interior. It has matching mating marks are present on the lock plate, cock and frizzen. Breech marked M/1821 and P/PC. A classic example of a Brown Bess inspired New England dual purpose militia fowler from the early 1820s.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Good. Bore dark and dirty, heavily oxidized and pitted. Metal with a moderately to heavily oxidized mostly brown patina with some areas of gray, scattered surface roughness and some pitting, mostly around the breech area. Brass cleaned to a bright golden appearance. Markings remain legible. Mechanically functional lock remains in original flint. Touchhole is well centered in the pan, but cleaned somewhat aggressively on the exterior. Touchhole is still correctly tapered and angled. Stock sanded with a repair running about 3.5" diagonally from the front of the lock mortise to the barrel channel and a repair to the upper rear of the lock mortise, forward of the wrist. Butt with some drying cracks. Otherwise with scattered bumps, dings and mars from handling and use.

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Mr. Carey joined Cowan’s, a Freeman's company, in 2021 and is a 40-year veteran of the sporting arms and outdoor recreation industry. Carey joined Cowan’s from Griffin & Howe at Hudson Farms in Andover, N.J., where he was responsible for the acquisition, appraisal, and consignment of top-tier firearms consignments from important makers such as James Purdey & Sons of London, Beretta, Caesar Guerini, B. Rizzini, Bertuzzi, Renato Telo, and Anderson Wheeler.

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Senior Consulting Specialist, Arms, Armor & Militaria

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Tim Prince has more than 30-years of experience in the field of antique and collectible arms and is a nationally recognized expert in the area of Civil War small arms. A long-time researcher and author, Tim has been a contributing author to two major books about Civil War firearms, including The English Connection: Arms, Material and Support Furnished to the Confederate States of America by Great Britain (2014) and Confederate Shotguns and Southern Agent Marked Shotguns (2017). He was also a major contributor to the recently updated Blue Book of Antique American Firearms & Values – 2nd Edition (2019) as well as the 2010 updates to the Civil War Collector's Price Guide - 12th edition. Over the last decade Tim has authored more than 50 articles on 19th century collectible and military arms, which have been published in such varied publications as Civil War News, North-South Trader, and Military Antique Collector. Since 2016 has appeared as a featured appraiser in the field of Arms & Militaria on the popular PBS television series Antiques Roadshow. He is a member of the American Society of Arms Collectors and currently serves on the board of directors of that organization. He is also a member of and formerly served on the board of directors of the Society of American Bayonet Collectors. Tim is a life member of the Ohio Valley Military Society, the Tennessee Military Collectors Association, the Alabama Military Collectors Association, is a member of the Company of Military Historians and is a member of numerous other colleting groups and societies. He is the owner of College Hill Arsenal, a web based antique and collectible arms retail web site, specializing in the American Civil War and related military items. Tim has engaged in the business of buying, selling, researching, and appraising antique and collectible arms and associated military items for some three decades. Since 2016 he has also served as a senior Consulting Specialist in the field of Arms, Armor & Militaria for Cowan’s Auctions, a Freeman's Company.

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