how can i help you well what i've got is a late 1700s tap action over under flintlock four-barrel
pistol that's a mouthful yeah it was wasn't it i came to the pawn shop today to try to sell
my four-barrel pistol my uncle had it and then he gave it to my father who then gave it to me
i really don't know how much the gun is worth but i'm hoping that they can shed some light for me
it is neat the reason i think this gun is so cool is because of all the engraving
that is done on it on the sides here it says r clark the other side has got london
so it was manufactured in london okay and i don't know what number 102 means that was
probably the gun makers surreal number he put on it he might have made a few hundred of these and
this was number 102. i don't know and each barrel is clearly numbered one two three four well let's
shoot all four barrels at the same time i mean it could shoot four at a time it was designed though
he'd pull the hammer back which is broken and this right here should be spring-loaded you can make
it a two-shot pistol when it's like this you only have the two holes for the barrels exposed okay so
when you shoot it just these top two barrels would go off and then you could pluck this back down
turn this and now there's that extra powder you had hidden away in there right
[ __ ] the hammer back and shoot it again now the bottom two barrels would go off
so it was one of the original multi-shot guns you actually shoot it twice i got you
for the 1700s this was a pretty high-tech gun but this is some of my problems with it okay um
you're missing the top half of this bolt that would normally hold the flat right
and we have the spring is broken there's a piece of spring steel that holds that down
it's in rough shape what'd you want to do with it i want to sell it okay and how much
did you want for it i don't know because i don't know the value of that gun at all you know um
i'm thinking it's probably worth probably five six hundred bucks okay
but it could be a lot more okay i would like to get an estimate on how much it would be to fix it
to make it actually functional because if it's functional people are going to want to buy it
it'll make it worth more money right okay okay so let me call a buddy of mine in here
get a little bit better idea on the gun and then i'll give you a price okay thank you
even though it's beat up i'm still interested because it's an unusual and cool old gun jimison
how you doing how's it going corey always good rick how's thanks what do you got today um an old
four-barrel pistol by some dude named clark well that's about sums it up the guys usually call me
down here for antique weapons everything for world war ii prior to that pretty much is what i do
i've been in the antique gun business for about 16 years and i can tell you that you do not see
many of these come up and it is by r clark you know clark was in business with his son from
1790 to 1820 and because it doesn't say our clark and son i suspect it means it was probably done
before his son was in the business and right around that time period uh the english guns
were the best in the world right that's correct and i would say a day somewhere to 1785 to 1790
you know during the 17th 18th centuries everybody wanted some kind of weapon you know to defend
themselves with and they wanted something that would be ready to shoot if they got robbed so
the barrels would have been loaded prior to putting onto the gun so that they would be
actually ready to shoot four barrel flintlocks are very rare at the time it was the top type of
gun that was made gave you a backup if you missed the first one and hopefully keep you from being
robbed it has the maker's name on the side here and this side has his address on it which is 102
cheap side london so that's not a cereal sir no no no that's not a serial number it's a matter
of advertising you know if you made a fancy gun or a really nice gun they would know where to go
okay do you have any idea what that would cost back in 1780 probably paid three or four pounds
for it back okay back then it was a pound in england was literally a pound of silver really
that's a lot of money nowadays yeah okay okay rick what are your concerns about this weapon
what's it worth and it would it be worth it to get it fixed this gun is obviously seen better days
the upper half of the [ __ ] is missing which makes it unoperable and it's supposed to be
spring loaded so that when the flint strikes it it goes back in its original position
so that is an issue i've seen guns like this in really nice condition go for three to five
thousand dollars in the case but this gun in the condition it's in i'd say it's worth about
700 to a thousand dollars if you're lucky
and to spend the money to have it rebuilt wouldn't bring back that money in any form okay well thanks
for coming in man you're the best thanks this gun did not have collector condition there were parts
missing parts replaced so it's not the kind of gun a collector would pursue so how much would you be
willing to pay for okay i mean the problem is it's a non-operable gun it's just not worth fixing it
it's what i originally thought i'd give you 500 bucks for it um but it's it's a pretty gun though
it's a pretty gun but it's also pretty beat up and i mean it doesn't work
600 what do you think how many old english guns have we bought over the years and how
many do we have in the case now i don't have any right now i mean they all sell eventually right
all right 600 bucks deal okay all right come with me let's do some paperwork
i was hoping i'd get more but you know 600 i can live with
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