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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roaring20s, post: 9511922, member: 17270&quot;]A musketoon is a short blunderbuss, larger musketoons were sometime used in actions involving small boats, where they could be mounted by swivels to special timbers designed to hold them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Pistols and other short-barreled firearms were best suited to boarding or other close actions, but they had to be dropped or thrown after a single use, as reloading in the heat of battle was too time consuming.</p><p><br /></p><p>The blunderbuss became obsolete in the mid19th century, when it was replaced by the carbine.</p><p><br /></p><p>The above was gleaned from ...</p><p><a href="https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_469432" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_469432" rel="nofollow">https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_469432</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The following was gleaned from ...</p><p><a href="http://www.martinihenry.com/sovcyph.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.martinihenry.com/sovcyph.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.martinihenry.com/sovcyph.htm</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Lock Viewer&#039;s Mark. In the time of muzzle loading weapons, this marking was applied to indicate that a Lock Viewer, or an inspector specializing in rifle locks had inspected the lock for correct function, and adherence to the specified pattern. Each manufacturer had minor variations in their Lock Viewer&#039;s Mark.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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