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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;afantiques, post: 47721, member: 25&quot;]The bayonet is genuine enough, no doubt about that, if not very valuable.</p><p>The flintlock pistol is no duelling pistol and it looks as if it may be genuine from about 1820 by the butt shape, but it also looks a pretty cheaply made item. I can&#039;t really tell from the pictures if it is the real thing or a realistic replica, but it also looks as if there is a hole drilled through the barrel, which would pretty well ruin the value if it were genuine. Tell me it&#039;s not so.</p><p><br /></p><p>I really can&#039;t go with the &#039;notches on my gun&#039; sort of thing. No one who&nbsp; is a big enough a-hole do do that sort of thing would be likely to survive one fight, let alone half a dozen.</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably the work of some later owner who had seen too many westerns.</p><p>Usually the owners of flintlock pistols fired the one shot, missed and used the thing as a club.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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