Original Vietnam War Navy Captain Ronald E. “Mugs” McKeown 1st Top Gun Commander Grouping British Replica is dated "1854" over "TOWER"

is dated "1854" over "TOWER" and has London barrel proof marks

Strakaty was a total Anglophile and every time he visited London would buy only British antique weapons

The lock on this example is marked Williams

which appears to have an Armorer's mark or stamp so the lock itself might have Spanish 17th Century origins

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Original Vietnam War Navy Captain Ronald E. “Mugs” McKeown 1st Top Gun Commander Grouping British Replica is dated "1854" over "TOWER"Original Items: One of a kind. Captain Ronald E. Mugs McKeown, was a highly decorated Naval fighter pilot who was the first commanding officer of the elite Top Gun academy. Captain McKeown, whose boxing prowess earned him the nickname Mugs, was chosen to command the newly commissioned Navy Fighter Weapons School, popularly known as Top Gun, in 1972. The training school began informally just two years earlier in a converted trailer at the former Naval