The most comprehensive guide to the "Brown Bess" musket to date, this book organizes each musket chronologically by pattern date.
Each musket is represented by one or more original examples with numerous full length and close up photographs in full color.
Musket patterns include:
1730 Long Land Musket. 1730/40 Long Land Musket. 1742 Long Land Musket. 1748 Long Land Musket. 1756 Long Land Musket (British). 1756 Long Land Musket (Irish). Marine or Militia Musket. 1769 Short Land Musket (British). 1769 Short Land Musket (Irish). 1777 Short Land Musket. Liege Short Land Musket. 1779 Short Land Musket. 1793 India Pattern. 1809 Indian Pattern.
Includes closeup views of lock and barrel marks. In many cases, original muskets are disassembled to show the reader rarely seen details and markings. Regimental and maker''''s marks are also discussed in detail.
160 pages, soft bound, 11" by 8-1/2" format, full color photographs. By Erik Goldstein & Stuart Mowbray.
