Now passed (2019) dear friend of mine Larry Burwell of Indiana built flintlocks 'in the day',
would build, take to Friendship and shoot in a match, then sell.
He signed his rifles, but never numbered them...
He was a millwright for GM and also in the past restored model A fords...
He called me one day and said he found one of his rifles on the web, on a sale site, contacted the poster and he said it was sold and
was on its way to France. There was a group in France that did period 'mountain men' rendezvous in France...
they were 'hard core'.... if their event involved traveling a river, they cut a tree and made a dugout canoe!
He had contact from the Frenchman, who sent him images of himself in his garb (buckskin clothes, a flintlock pistol, a tomahawk, big knife, and
coonskin cap, holding what was Larry's rifle... i think i lost those images in a hard drive crash
Here's a story on Larry.... geeze I miss this guy!
Here are some views of the 'John Armstrong' I finished in the Spring of 2011 after so many idle years of other hobbies like restoring Mod...
contemporarymakers.blogspot.com
the rifle pictured there was one of his last... about when he retired from GM.