Carbine
- Object Name:
- Carbine
- Object ID:
- 1966.545.469
- Creator:
- Joslyn Firearms Company
Gunsmith - Place of Origin:
- Stonington, CT
- Date:
- 1864
- Description:
- Joslyn Single-Shot Breech Loading Carbine, Model 1864; .52 caliber; 21" half-stocked rounded blued barrel, attached to forestock with one iron band and band spring; center-mounted firing hammer and pin; pinched iron blade front sight and 500 yard graduated, two leaf folding rear sight; all furniture is iron with exception of wooden fore and buttstock; round, spring-actuated, knurled knobbed breech block with a rimfire cartridge;
Markings: "JOSLYN FIREARMS Co. / STONINGTON CONN. / 1864" stamped forward of hammer on right sideplate; "B.F. JOSLYN'S PATENT / OCTOBER 8TH 1861 / JUNE 24 TH 1862" stamped on breech-block to rear of firing pin; "7598" serial number stamped atop breech-block rear of gas vent and on 2" tang, to the rear of breech-block; "FDL" stamped at rear of barrel, left side; "FDL" stamped twice in script on stock, left side above sliding ring bar; "L" inspectors initials stamped left of rear sight base plate; "US" stamped on top of buttplate tang. - Material:
- Wood
Metal
Iron - Dimensions:
- L-38.5 inches
- Provenance:
- From the Horace W. Harmon Collection. Harmon catalog entry #469: "Joslyn Carbine Civil War 1862".
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Horace W. Harmon
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