John the video is up but its hard to study detail in a video some still photo's are needed
John from the video I am leaning to yours having a French influence there may be a mark of a 3 point crown on the bottom of the pan if there is it will help ID and date your musket
It is generally accepted that the characteristics that classify a flintlock mechanism as a miquelet are the horizontal acting sears. That is, the full cock and half cock sears pass through the lockplate at right angles and the one-piece battery and pan cover. The most recognizable features associated with the miquelet are the large external mounted main spring and the large ring of the top jaw screw. Those features, when present, do not, by themselves, classify a lock as a miquelet.
One could notice a French influence in Spanish gunlock making in Madrid in the first quarter of the18th century. The Spanish lock had the French flintlock appearance, but the gunsmith mounted the main spring on the inside of the lock. It operated in the classic Spanish style (i.e., the horizontal acting sears). This style of miquelet was called the llave a la moda to distinguish it from the traditional patilla lock so popular with provincial gunsmiths.
The Italian miquelet was a style of lock that developed concurrently with that of the patilla. It was also known to the Spanish as the Roman lock or llave a la romana and achieved some measure of success in Spain, and subsequently throughout the Mediterranean. Its distinguishing features were the main spring that exerted a downward pressure on the toe of the cock and the full cock sear acting on the heel of the cock.
The origin and initial development of the patilla lock took place almost certainly under royal patronage and in Madrid around 1570. By 1620, it was fully developed and remained substantially unaltered for the next 200 years. The advent of the "caplock" firearm in the first quarter of the 19th century initiated the demise of the classic miquelet patilla lock.
The term miquelet was not applied to the lock until about 1815, most likely as a result of British troops in the Peninsular campaigns in Spain against Napoleon applying the term to the patilla mounted fusil carried by the Spanish mountain fusilers, known as "miqueletes". Periodic references to the Spanish styled lock, as miquelets became common usage over the remainder of the 19th century. The Spanish lock and all variants are now termed "miquelet". The accepted classification for the miquelet must now include the country, region, or tribe as the identifying style, i.e., Turkish, Russian, Spanish, Balkan, etc.
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