{"id":378,"date":"2012-01-05T22:16:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T03:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=378"},"modified":"2015-09-24T09:19:16","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T13:19:16","slug":"18th-century-revolutionary-war-american-made-musket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"18th Century Revolutionary War American made Musket ( 1779 &#8211; 1780 )"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This piece has an American cherry full stock with a nice curved drop to the butt. There is a fine shell carving on the wrist behind the tang giving it much character. The round barrel has no markings,\u00a0 measures 43 &amp; 5\/16&#8243; long and may be American made. The original flint lock is a French\u00a0 model 1717 and the trigger guard is from a British Sea service musket. All other brass mountings such as the side plate, butt plate and ram rod pipes are American. It has it&#8217;s original steel ram rod. 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There is a fine shell carving on the wrist behind the tang giving it much character. The round barrel has no markings,\u00a0 measures 43 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/?p=378\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flintlock-muskets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Lbe7-66","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2124,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/2124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanpowderhorns.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}