GUEST: As far as I know, this is a model 1777, second model, Brown Bess that came from Dover, New Hampshire, with the pouch.

And as far as I know, it's pretty much untouched.

APPRAISER: How'd you get it?

GUEST: I saw it hanging on the wall of a older couple, friends of mine.

And the pouch was given to me first, and then I purchased the firearm later on.

APPRAISER: Nice, so it all came from the same place.

GUEST: That's correct.

APPRAISER: So let's talk about the pouch first.

It's actually called a cartridge box.

The British called their over-the-shoulder box a pouch, and then what was worn around the waist a cartridge box.

Here, we weren't that particular.

You see them named all sorts of things-- cartridge boxes, cartouche boxes.

They have all different names for them.

Let's take a look inside.

So, we can see it has 24 holes.

One of the tins is missing.

But these would be to hold the cartridges in place and protect them.

And by the number of cartridges and the form of the box, it's probably post-Revolutionary War to the beginning of the 19th century.

Let's go to the gun now.

What we've got, as you mentioned, is a, uh, British Pattern 1777, uh, Short Land musket in really wonderful condition.

And it's great because it's regimentally marked, which we all like to see.

APPRAISER: Um, on the top of the barrel, we've got 65 Regiment, "65 RGT."

And then on the wrist, we've got the brass wrist plate here, with "F-34," for the rack number, for the company, company F, and the number of the man.

So we can definitely tell it's a Pattern 1777 based upon the shortened sear spring lock.

A little bit different than the Pattern 1769 of earlier times.

And the cock is a little bit different than the earlier pattern.

One of the great things that it has, too, is an original whisk-- it's missing the pick, and the whisk would've been used to clean out the pan between shots.

These guns were built, um, by various makers.

There, there were people who would make the barrels, um, the brass parts, the locks, and then they would put it all together.

It's original brown, hasn't been cleaned.

The bayonet is cool in its own right.

Probably not issued with the gun itself, but it's marked "L.I."

and the rack number.

The L.I.

would be for the light infantry company of whatever regiment it was from.

And when they're marked with L.I.

for light infantry, they're a little more collectible than the regular bayonets, with a rack number or without.

What'd you pay for it?

GUEST: $400.

APPRAISER: $400 for the whole group?

GUEST: That's correct.

APPRAISER: Right now, Revolutionary War stuff is fairly hot, uh, but we would put an auction estimate on all of it in the $10,000 to $15,000 range.

GUEST: Mm-hmm!

APPRAISER: Definitely, uh, way more than what you paid for it.

GUEST: Well, thank you very much.

APPRAISER: Well, thank you for bringing it in.