Original British P-1771 East India Company Brown Bess Flintlock Musket with Bannister Rail Stock - Dated 1776 Original Machine Guns It is a wooden handle

It is a wooden handle with a steel fitting that is inserted into the hollow of the cocking handle to give more leverage with jammed cartridges

but markings tend to be quite faint

It came to called the “Vopo helmet” largely by circumstance: Most photographs seen in the West of armed East German personnel were of the border guards

Meaning that the locks were adapted from P-1840 muskets also known as East India Company Pattern Muskets

Original British P-1771 East India Company Brown Bess Flintlock Musket with Bannister Rail Stock - Dated 1776 Original Machine Guns It is a wooden handleOriginal Item (except where specified): Only One Available. This is a super restored example of of the Pattern 1771 EIC Brown Bess musket. The example has an original 1776 dated lock by the maker Henry Nock as well as an original English proofed barrel. The reproduction stock has been expertly shaped into the tru thrid model pattern banister rail type and the entire gun has been cleaned and polished to give it a "like new" appearance. It is no secret