2 parts in stock
c. 1660–1840
Flintlock
A written overview of this era is still to come. It goes through the same check as everything else here — nothing is published as fact before Butch Schoeller has confirmed it.
The plate corpus
Plates placed on this era
24 of 1,637 shown
These are grouped by how the arm fires, not by pattern. The records behind them identify a mechanism and a date — a patent sheet names neither the maker’s model nor the arm it ended up in, and an armoury catalogues by ignition system — so none of them is a claim about a particular gun. Where a sheet carries a mechanism classification it is named beneath the plate, and that too describes how the part works rather than which arm it came off.
Surviving arms · 1,637 photographs
Museum and armoury photography of arms of this ignition system. The caption under each is the source record’s own title, printed as it stands — including the holding institution and its accession number where the record carries them, because that is what lets a reader go and check the plate.
1,715 plates are filed under this era; 1,637 of them are shown here. The rest are held back for one of two reasons — the scan is too small to read, or the page is specification text rather than a figure. A patent is mostly prose, and a page of type is not a drawing of anything. The rest of the reference is reachable on the other two axes.
Model families
Arms of this era
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The reference
Parts of this era
38 part types · 388 documented
The components documented on the arms of this era, and which of those arms each one is recorded on. Following an arm goes to that arm’s own entry for the part; following the component crosses the whole catalogue instead.
- Band Springs
11 documented
- Barrel Bands
11 documented
- Bayonet Lug
11 documented
- Bridle
11 documented
- Buttplate
11 documented
- Buttstock
11 documented
- Cartouche
11 documented
- Cock
11 documented
- Fly
11 documented
- Forestock
11 documented
- Frizzen
11 documented
- Frizzen Spring
11 documented
- Front Sight
11 documented
- Jaw Screw
11 documented
- Lockplate
11 documented
- Mainspring
11 documented
- Nosecap
11 documented
- Pan
11 documented
- Pan Bridle
11 documented
- Patchbox
11 documented
- Ramrod
11 documented
- Ramrod Pipes
11 documented
- Ramrod Spoon
11 documented
- Rear Sight
11 documented
Showing 24 of 38 part types documented in this era. All part types
From the bench
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- Third model British Brown Bess flintlock musket hammer. Type 2
- First model British Brown Bess musket flintlock hammer
- Third model British Brown Bess flintlock musket hammer.
- Third British Brown Bess flintlock musket pan
- Second model British Brown Bess flintlock hammer type 1
- Second model British Brown Bess flintlock musket pan
- First model British Brown Bess flintlock musket pan type one
- Third Model Brown Bess musket frizzen
- Third model British Brown Bess flintlock musket frizzen spring
- Second model British Brown Bess flintlock top jaw
- U.S. 1816 North flintlock pistol top jaw
- British Sea Service flintlock pistol frizzen
- First Model British Brown Bess flintlock musket top jaw
- First model British Brown Bess flintlock musket pan type 2
- British Sea Service flintlock pistol ramrod ferral
- U.S. model 1836 Waters/Johnson flintlock martial pistol frizzen spring
- U.S. 1817 Common Rifle flintlock frizzen
- Tumbler for the Springfield and Harpers Ferrry 1808/1812 muskets
- 1776 British Rifle Frizzen
- Second model British Brown Bess flintlock musket frizzen
- British Dragoon flintlock pistol frizzen
- Flintlock frizzen English style
- U.S. model 1808 flintlock musket frizzen
- U.S. 1816 North flintlock frizzen
Showing 24 of 98. The model pages above carry the rest.
Check it yourself
Sources
12 sources
Period and institutional material relevant to this entry. Listed so it can be checked, not as decoration — nothing here has been through expert review yet.
- 1.Flintlock BlunderbussMetropolitan Museum of Art · 1793
- 2.Flintlock Gun of Louis XIII (1601–1643), King of FrancePierre Le Bourgeois · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1595
- 3.Flintlock GunLe Faure · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1725
- 4.Flintlock LongrifleJacob Kuntz · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1800
- 5.Cased Set of a Flintlock Rifle, a Pair of Pistols, and AccessoriesNicolas Noël Boutet · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1775
- 6.Pair of Flintlock PistolsSamuel Brunn · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1800
- 7.Flintlock GunLouis Jaley · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1735
- 8.Pair of Flintlock Pistols of Empress Catherine the Great (1729–1796)Johan Adolph Grecke · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1786
- 9.Flintlock GunDe Lacollombe · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1705
- 10.Gun with Flintlock a la modaGabriel de Algora · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1744
- 11.Carbine with Flintlock alla FiorentinaCarlo Bottarelli · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1635
- 12.Flintlock Pistol Made for Charles XI of Sweden (1655–1697)Bertrand Piraube · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1676