Carl,
Thanks the bed is one of my favorite projects.
After the picture in the bed room was taken I built a tester for the top and I'm turning urn finials for it.
Yup,
That's typical of the period. There were a large number of 1728 pattern muskets used in the Revolutionary war.
My wife and I do 18th century Scottish living history specifically the 1745 Jacobite rebellion and it is a correct long arm for me to carry. http://appins.org/
I built two of them one form myself and the other for one of our members.