Hello,
Recently my grandmother passed and we found a couple firearms that my grandfather had kept. Unfortunately he passed away back in 08 and we do not have much if any information about them (type/age/history/value/etc). Any help would be much appreciated. There are 6 total
Thanks in advance
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Welcome to The Firearms Forum. I think you might want to add pictures of the whole gun to what you have. I see some that have Mauser type actions but without the whole gun being shown, to me they could be anything I am sure that we have experts that can probably tell right away but even they might need the whole thing.
The rifle with adjustable rear sight and bearing serial number 78 appears to be a Japanese Type 38 6.5mm. Rifle with the fixed rear sight bearing number 58664 is a late model Type 99 7.7mm. Can't help you on the double, though I'm sure members who can will be along shortly.
The percussion double appears to be an above average example. If you remove the barrels there may be proof-marks. (Put hammers on half-cock, push out the flat crosspin in forearm, and lift up front of barrels) *But first use the ramrod or a long dowel to measure depth of barrels, as many are found still loaded.
*Didn't see the other muzzle-loaders first look, do this with them also.
The double with the gold inlays I suspect is of English manufacture and as hrf said appears to be of above average quality. The other I don't believe is near the quality of the first. As hrf mentioned check to make certain there is no charge in the barrels then break them down and see if there's further info on the bottoms of the barrels.
The bolt rifles I agree with McKenzie that they're Japanese and the rest I will defer to him....not my area of interest.
The last one is a Harpers Ferry musket that started life as a flintlock. I couldn't tell if the stock was cut down or not. If all the barrel bands and other metal parts are still there and it is sound, it is worth a couple hundred for it's historical value.
From the top down:
1. Japanese training rifle in the configuration of a 6.5 service rifle. Or, could be a trainer combined with an actual working rifle action which the Japanese did in a last ditch effort to make a few more rifles at the end of the war.
2. Japanese 7.7mm Type 99 service rifle (late war production)
3. A nice caplock shotgun, maybe British or could be Belgian (must see proof marks under barrel)
4. An old caplock shotgun must see prove marks to see how old and place made.
5. cutdown U.S. musket. This gun started out as a flintlock but was converted to percusion. Then cut down to make a cheep shotgun.
6. Birmingham proof marks on a British made sporting shotgun. Converted from flint to percussion.
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