Carbine
- Object Name:
- Carbine
- Object ID:
- 1966.545.734
- Date:
- 1830
- Description:
- Muzzle-loading flintlock carbine, smoothbore, with round barrel. (Barrel length: 15.5"; .75 caliber). Gun is fully stocked; barrel is pin-fastened to stock. Fixed front gunsight. By means of a swivel, the flat-capped ramrod is inserted into the barrel. All iron furniture is browned: ramrod; barrel (with decorative ring incised at breech); lockplate; cock; trigger. Brass furniture: one ramrod pipe with tail let into stock at bulge; nosecap; trigger guard; convex, S-shaped sideplate. Markings: two British proof marks at breech (Birmingham proofs adopted 1813); lockplate: "Tower", crown above "GR" is incised.
- Material:
- Wood
Metal - Dimensions:
- L-28.5 inches
- Provenance:
- From the Horace W. Harmon Collection. Harmon catalog entry #734: "This is a composite Gun Lock from gun from Frank Bunker; Rod Mrs. J. C. Carr, Stock John Towle".
- Credit Line:
- Gift of Horace W. Harmon
- People:
- Harmon, Horace W. (1844-1911)
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