Belgian Made French Style Model 1842 Rifled Musket

American Civil War

.70 caliber. 40.5" barrel secured by three flat, spring-retained bands. NSN. Bright finish, iron furniture, European hardwood stock. Single shot percussion muzzleloading smoothbore musket. Unmarked percussion back action lock, breech with Liege proofs and various crowned letter maker and controller marks. Obverse stock stamped with a {CROWN} script letter that appear to be "GW", likely the maker's mark. Musket retains both sling swivels the iron front sight blade on the upper strap of the top barrel band, and a full-length trumpet head ramrod with threads on the end. A lug for an angular socket bayonet is located under the barrel, 1.125" inches form the muzzle. Thousands of obsolete French and Belgian smoothbore percussion muskets were imported during the Civil War, primarily by the US, but some by the Confederacy as well, primarily as speculative purchases. This a solid representative example of those guns that were imported and saw service during the early months of the war.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.