This great New England Fowler was formerly part of Tom Grinslade's collection and is pictured on pages 41 & 241 in his book " Flintlock Fowlers The first guns Made in America. These were the guns that met the British at Lexington & Concord.  There's a excellent description of this gun in the book which I'm going to use. New England Fowler Dated 1769- Clock makers possessed divergent skills that sometimes included the ability to craft guns………….The brass furniture and inlays on this fowler are unusual and include three watch gears inlaid into the stock,indicating that this gunsmith might also have been a clock maker. On the butt tangis the date 1769 and a folk art caricature of a hunter with a cone shaped hat and holding a fowler. Engraved on the silver wrist escutcheon is a gun with a bayonet and two crossed swords accented  by squire-headed brass nails around the oval. The bow of the trigger guard has unique scalloped edges with a rear finial formed into a bird's beak shape. On the walnut stock at the barrel tang,the maker carved a small shell pattern. The unmarked barrel is a octagon section for the first ten inches changing to round at a molded band.  It's .62 cal. and 43 " overall.  This is a exceptional fowler! 

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