Colonial Trade Musket Serpentine Side Plate!!!

Donnie B from VA

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Hit some colonial cellar holes with my friend, Ron, yesterday. It was a struggle for most of the day as three of our planned sites were choked off with vegetation. :BangHead: We switched over to an improvised back-up plan and hit three sites that we had been to previously.
These back-up sites gave up a few buttons and not much else until late in the day. At the last hole, I found probably one of my best finds ever. It's a Serpentine Side Plate for an English Trade Musket! The Dragon or "Serpentine" design for side plates was used almost exclusively on trade guns for North America and indeed had come to mean to the Indian that the article was genuine. 100626629_10216980935699215_5729626216999157760_n.jpg 100537811_10216980937379257_7538882556238757888_n.jpg 100630323_10216988068677535_8475006120472084480_n.jpg 100952167_10216988069117546_3587434505578741760_n.jpg
 

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Congrats thats a great relic there. Ive seen one posted here a long time ago. Thats what is all about Im glad someone who appreciates History found it,,, Well done........Tommy
 

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Nice find, and the tail portion must be around there somewhere.
 

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Donnie B from VA

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Nice find, and the tail portion must be around there somewhere.

I looked hard for it but do plan to make a return trip very soon to look again.
 

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Very nice find, congrats! :occasion14:
 

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serpent musket side plate is an awesome find !
Great hunt indeed ...

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