flintlock trade musket
Report a Mistake- Object Number 19640002-004
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Artist / Maker / Manufacturer
Galton, Samuel
The Northwest Company - Date Made 1799-1817
- Place of Use Continent - North America, Country - Canada
- Category Tools and equipment for science and technology
- Sub-category Armament, firearm
- Department Arms and Technology
- Museum CWM
- Earliest 1799/01/01
- Latest 1817/12/31
- Brand Name / Model Chief's Gun
- Inscription (on trigger guard:) (BOW) (ARROW) (SHIELD), FRONT PART IN SHAPE OF 3 FEATHERS; (on butt plate): (ARROW) AND (SPEAR) THROUGH (HUNTING HORN); (top of stock wirst: SILVER CHIEF'S HEAD MADALLION; (on lock support plate): (BOW) AND (ARROW) IN (SHIELD); (rear of lock plate): (BOARS HEAD) WITH (ARROW) IN (HUNTING HORN);(on top of barrel): (FOX) IN (CIRCLE);ORDNANCE PROOF MARK:GR OVER (BROAD ARROW) AND (CROWN) OVER (CROSSED FLAGS);LOCK VIEWING MARK:(CROWN) OVER (BROAD ARROW)
- Pattern Name Northwest Trade Gun
- Materials Wood, Brass, Iron
- Service Component Indian Department
- Measurements Length 134.0 cm, Width 14.0 cm
- Caption Musket, Chief's Grade Northwest Trade
- Additional Information British Chief's Musket.The British made this musket to present to a First Peoples ally. There is a silver medallion on the musket's wooden stock.