This is the only totally complete Benjamin Flagg Model 1842 Musket I have ever seen.  They are extremely rare.  Everything about this gun seems to be correct and contemporary with its origins.  The barrel and stock do not have U.S. proof and inspection marks and they should not.  Various component parts are marked with what looks more like a cryptic mark than an inspection mark.  The butt plate is marked U.S. turned sideways.  The lock is marked with an Eagle over US forward of the hammer and B. Flagg & Company over Millbury over Mass over 1849 to the rear of the hammer.  There is a brass escutcheon on the wrist of the stock, behind the barrel tang with the number 70 engraved on it.  The gun is in a solid, very good condition with all its component parts, sound wood and metal.  Jack Meyer's book "William Glaze and the Palmetto Armory" indicates that William Glaze of South Carolina had a contract for muskets with the State of South Carolina.  He purchased, under contract, 660 muskets from Benjamin Flagg in 1849.  They were delivered to the State of South Carolina by December of 1850.  Twenty of the muskets failed to pass inspection and he was eventually paid for 640 Benjamin Flagg muskets in November of 1851.  Further, I suspect he bought machinery from Benjamin Flagg for the production of the Palmetto musket.  Although, there is just as much evidence to indicate that he was buying parts from Benjamin Flagg or wherever he could get them and finishing them to assemble the Palmetto musket.  At any rate, when South Carolina entered into their contracts with William Glaze, it intended that he produce a stand-alone industry capable of producing weapons in the state.  When it found out he had not, there was much turmoil and he remained out of favor and without contracts throughout the Civil War.  A rare gun with a neat bit of history.  SOLD!!