Musket
- Object Name:
- Musket
- Object ID:
- 1966.545.657
- Place of Origin:
- Austria
- Date:
- 1800-1825
- Description:
- Muzzle-loading, percussion cap musket, smoothbore with round barrel (barrel length 42.5"; .69 caliber). Iron ramrod is intact. Gun is fully stocked; barrel is fastened to stock by 3 bands and 2 retaining springs: one on the forward, one on the rear band. Bottom of forestock is flattened. All iron furniture is browned: barrel; bands; flat lockplate; hammer; trigger guard with blunt ends and 2 ridges for a finger grip; flat, S-shaped sideplate; 2 sling swivels, one on underside of center band, one just forward of trigger guard bow; flat butt plate with 2.5" tang. Raised carved cheekpiece on left side of butt stock; raised carving around lockplate and sideplate. Gunsight on front strap of forward band. Bayonet mounting stud located on underside, at muzzle.
- Material:
- Wood
Metal
Iron - Dimensions:
- L-57.25 inches
- Provenance:
- From the Horace W. Harmon Collection. Harmon catalog entry #657: "Percussion Lock Foreign Musket, one of the first used in Austria".
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Horace W. Harmon
- People:
- Harmon, Horace W. (1844-1911)
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