French stone/ gun flint

[monsterrack]

I found this some years ago, along with a bunch of other trade goods This may look like just a chip of flint, but it is from a French trade site made for a flint lock rifle. Excuse the cuts I have been digging

 

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[rock]

I have found some strange scrapers in my area that might be flint locks. Hard for me to say on mine. It looks interesting.

 

[The Grim Reaper]

Nice looking Gun Flint. It amazing how some of them look like Scrapers and can be easily missed.

Here are some Gun Flints that all came from a battle site in New York. The dark ones are English and the lighter colored one are french and made from Honey colored French Flint.

 

[GatorBoy]

Nice post.
Collectable little guys aren't they.
That French Flint really got around..I have some from the French occupation of Florida before the Spanish. Also Spanish and English from several Second Seminole war Forts here in FL.
I belive there was some...probably uneasy trade going on at that time as well.
Some use wear on yours Monster.

 

[catherine1]

I have one that was found at my dig site made of the honey flavor. I think I will give mine to a collector as I don't keep it with my native artifacts. I have also dug up a couple of muzzle balls. Nice find.

 

[GatorBoy]

Love those honey flavored ones. :-)

 

[monsterrack]

Nice post.
Collectable little guys aren't they.
That French Flint really got around..I have some from the French occupation of Florida before the Spanish. Also Spanish and English from several Second Seminole war Forts here in FL.
I belive there was some...probably uneasy trade going on at that time as well.
Some use wear on yours Monster.

There was far sure some uneasy trading going on, this was traded right before the fort Rosalie attack where they killed all but 2 of the men and took all the women and kids for slaves.

 

[GatorBoy]

Crazy times then for sure.. I try to remember that when I handle those people's possessions.
These were our relatives.

 

[rock]

OK is this a gun flint or a broken heart breaker?

 

[Tnmountains]

I just do not see that on my sites. Great find Monsterrack and good examples Grim. So if you are finding gun flints the obvious next step is a metal detector I guess?

 

[GatorBoy]

That's what I did







Pewter Dragoons

 

[GatorBoy]

OK is this a gun flint or a broken heart breaker?

Both sides will help.
It looks a little long for a Flint.

 

[yakker]

Oddly enough, I found one just the other day, so I dragged this old post back up (hope no one minds). I was actually looking it up on line and this post came up on the list page. Go figure. Apparently, the best came from both England and France and were imported about 50/50 quantity-wise. Cool things to find- and I need to detect a bit more often, I think! Oh, and there's an odd-ball, top right. It's grey, and at first I thought it was pottery, but it isn't. So I think maybe it's a local attempt- perhaps out of desperation. Maybe it isn't a 'flint' at all. Thoughts? Yakker

 

[monsterrack]

They did try to make flints local for guns , but a lot of times it was the natives

 

[GatorBoy]

I've looked at some good info on the differences in flaking techniques between the French,English,Native American...and also the Spanish here in Florida.
That can sometimes help to Identify the Native knapped flint from European.

 

[yakker]

Thanks for the info! I'll be looking into it. It's a mystery piece. Yak

 

[ncnurseryman]

Never found gun flints but they sure are cool looking.