Musket

Object Name:

Musket

Object ID:

1966.545.208

Place of Origin:

Germany

Date:

circa 1765

Description:

Muzzle-loading flintlock musket, smoothbore, with round barrel (barrel length: 44.6"; .75 caliber). Iron ramrod intact (probably not original to piece). Gun is fully stocked; barrel is pin-fastened to stock. Bayonet mounting stud on underside, at muzzle. Fixed front gunsight, brass, elliptical in shape, located 4.6" from muzzle. Raised carvings around most fittings on stock. Iron furniture is browned: barrel with raised ornamental ring at breech; flat bevelled lockplate; squared cock jaws and frizzen top; 2 sling swivels (one forward of 2nd ramrod pipe; one on trigger guard bow); curled trigger. Heavy brass furniture: flat butt plate with 2 rounded screwheads protruding and 5.5" tang; flat S-shaped sideplate; trigger guard with blunt ends; oval escutcheon; 4 tube-shaped ramrod pipes. Shaved down comb on stock. Brass band .25" wide fastens stock to barrel at muzzle (recent addition). Paper label adhered to stock, inscribed in ink, "208", indicating Harmon Collection #208.

Material:

Wood
Metal

Dimensions:

L-57 inches

Provenance:

From the Horace W. Harmon Collection. Harmon catalog entry #208: "Flint lock gun from ____ Winston, descent to Wm. Winston of Effingham Falls NH. It has been always said it was used in Rev. War".

Card in old file: "H.W. Harmon Collection: Hessian flintlock musket used in the Revolution, brought home by Samuel Quarles who served from Bunker Hill."
This type of musket was used by Prussia and other German states from c. 1720-1782.

Credit Line:

Gift of Horace W. Harmon

People:

Harmon, Horace W. (1844-1911)

Subjects:

Firearms, Muskets, Revolutionary War, American Revolution