Escution plate? No! but Good Thread

[steelheadwill]

Found this item very similar to one earlier IDed as musket escution.
have I found another? slightly over 2.5" long
Thanks & HH to all

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: Escution plate?

No, and are you sure the other wasn't ID'ed as a side plate?

 

[steelheadwill]

Re: Escution plate?

No, and are you sure the other wasn't ID'ed as a side plate?

Thanks,
first photo below was IDed as a 'musket part'
second & third photo IDed as French/Belgian musket Escution,
Any further thoughts on these

I also have a 'Buttplate' That one was easier, still the same 'L' design as some moderns. Thanks

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: Escution plate?

No, and are you sure the other wasn't ID'ed as a side plate?

Thanks,
first photo below was IDed as a 'musket part'
second & third photo IDed as French/Belgian musket Escution,
Any further thoughts on these

I also have a 'Buttplate' That one was easier, still the same 'L' design as some moderns. Thanks

I think they are both parts of a trigger guard. Does your big piece seem complete?

http://www.11thpa.org/Bess.html

 

[steelheadwill]

Re: Escution plate?

Thanks for that exact match, #1 in your pic is same as my #1 pic 'Longland 1730'
Great 'Bess' info Site
Wanted to include the buttplate pic with these,
My pix are only referenced by date, and I was being called away
I'm back and here it is.
new pix because someone originally ID'd it out of a group photo
otherwise it would have gone into the brass scrap pile
seeing as it has a screw intact (even some of my own are loose )
I imagine the entire weapon went overboard, (more than one??)
The area where these were found is a tough dig, accessable only at the lowest tides,
and in deep sloppy mud, hope to find the rest of that trigger guard, lock and sideplate

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: Escution plate?

Thanks for that exact match, #1 in your pic is same as my #1 pic 'Longland 1730'
Great 'Bess' info Site
Wanted to include the buttplate pic with these,
My pix are only referenced by date, and I was being called away
I'm back and here it is.
new pix because someone originally ID'd it out of a group photo
otherwise it would have gone into the brass scrap pile
seeing as it has a screw intact (even some of my own are loose )
I imagine the entire weapon went overboard, (more than one??)
The area where these were found is a tough dig, accessable only at the lowest tides,
and in deep sloppy mud, hope to find the rest of that trigger guard, lock and sideplate

I'm thinking you need to hire a new ID guy. I wouldn't laugh usually, but you did find that 60th so...

 

[Iron Patch]

Re: Escution plate?

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[steelheadwill]

Re: Escution plate?