Flintlock

[HerbZ]

Well, now that I come to think about it, this flintlock was in a gallery with French paintings. The English paintings (including a few huge paintings by a Thomas Gainsborough who seemed to paint nothing but the sort of wealthy people who could afford such a gun) were all in another gallery on the other side of the museum. It's a sort of a shortish smooth bore and with a slight flair to its muzzle, so it might be well suited to firing shot at upland game. Perhaps it was French made for an Englishman who used it, along with dogs from Spain (aka Spaniels), for upland hunting?

It's been decades since I've singed hairs off knuckles on my right hand with a flintlock, but this one looks in really nice shape and with what looks like a good flint that seems properly mounted.