Mdl.1777 French  Dragoon  muskets are scarce but a first year production one is nearly unheard of.  This one has the protruding screw head on the front barrel band as only the first year produced muskets exhibited.  The musket is all original and totally untouched.  It's got all brass furniture with the exception on the trigger plate and the middle double band which are steel as they should be. It saw a lot of action as the touch hole shows evidence of much firing and the frizzen has been resoled. The stock is stamped J.P (Joseph Perkins) who was superintendent of the Continental Armory in Philadelphia 1780-82.  According to Geo. Moller's "American Military Shoulder Arms" pg.151 " Most of the arms repaired under these contracts appear to have been of the French infantry musket configuration".   The action is good with a strong mainspring. There's many an advanced Rev.War collection that's lacking one of these rare muskets

Ex. Ben Michel Collection 

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