.60 caliber. 36.5" pinned three-stage barrel. SN: NSN. Bright finish, iron and brass furniture, full-length stock. Percussion altered flint lock with crude hammer and drum bolster. Lock marked with the "{Circle-Fox}" logo and Board of Ordnance "{Crown-Broad Arrow}" forward of the hammer and in an arc at the tail "DAWES". Top flat of barrel with the "{Circle-Fox}" logo and marked "LONDON". Breech with British Board of Ordnance proof marks. Traditional Northwest gun features include a three-screw brass serpent side plate, flat buttplate secured by both screws and nails, oversized iron triggerguard, raised carved apron around the tang and corrugated ramrod pipes. Stock shows traces of old red ocher paint but has a bleached appearance as if the paint was intentionally stripped from the wood. Triggerguard with silver paint and traces of gold paint as well. William and Samuel Dawes worked in Birmingham during the 1st quarter of the 19th century and were among the contractors who received British Board of Ordnance contracts in 1813 to deliver trade guns to the Native Allies of the British during the War of 1812. The Dawes firm would deliver 1,048 guns to the Board of Ordnance under that contract.