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186* Dated CONFEDERATE Antique C.S. RICHMOND ARMORY “Humpback” Rifle-Musket Original Military Weapon for SOUTHERN INFANTRY
Guns International #: 103529175 Seller's Inventory #: 256013
Category: Civil War Rifles - Antique Rifles - Percussion
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Seller: AncestryGunsLLC
Company: Ancestry Guns LLC
Member Since: 11/3/16
State: Missouri
Zip: 65203
Country: United States
Phone: (314) 707-7373
International Phone: 314-707-7373
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Description:
186* Dated CONFEDERATE Antique C.S. RICHMOND ARMORY “Humpback” Rifle-Musket
Original Military Weapon for SOUTHERN INFANTRY
Here we present an antique Confederate C.S. Richmond Armory Two Band “Humpback” Rifle-Musket, made circa 1862-63 in Richmond, Virginia. At the start of the American Civil War, the Confederacy suffered from a lack of resources with the capability to produce small arms weapons. Virginia appropriated funds to modernize the Old State Armory building in Richmond with arms-making machinery manufactured in England. But, the confrontation at Fort Sumter initiated the Union blockade which prevented delivery of the machinery. In April 1861, the Confederacy led by Thomas Jonathan Jackson, more commonly known as “Stonewall” Jackson, captured the Union held town of Harper's Ferry in western Virginia, and salvaged the machinery used to manufacture Springfield Model 1855 muskets. Confederate troops captured 33,993 black walnut stocks along with the machinery. The machinery and stocks were shipped on the Winchester and Potomac Railroad to Winchester, Virginia, where they were transferred by wagons over the Valley Pike to be reloaded onto the Manassas Gap Railroad at Strasburg, Virginia for delivery to Richmond. The rifling machinery was transferred to the Fayetteville Arsenal.
The original Virginia Manufactory of Arms was a state-owned manufacturer of firearms and arsenal in what today is Richmond, Virginia. It was established by the Commonwealth of Virginia in 1798 to supply the Virginia militia with firearms. The factory operated from around 1802 to 1821. When the American Civil War broke out in 1861, the works were revived as the Richmond Armory, eventually utilizing the machinery captured from Harpers Ferry in April 1861. The Richmond Armory Rifle-Muskets are easily identified by the hump-back lock plate made from forgings and dies for the U.S. Model 1855 Maynard tape primer lock plate that were captured at Harpers Ferry. While the Model 1855 lock was made to be milled out for the use of paper primers, Richmond left the locks intact and simply used the standard percussion caps directly on the nipple. This musket represents the most numerous domestically produced longarm of the Confederacy and one that would have been found in the infantry’s hands most often.
This rifled musket features the Richmond lock marked “C.S./RICHMOND,VA.” and dated “186*”, with the last number lost over time. The lock inletting is correct and there is no provision for the Maynard system to be used. The stock is as it should be and not inspector marked.
The overall condition is good. The original barrel has mixed patinas and is shortened with the appropriate “T” dovetail rear sight. Replacement front sight, forend cap, barrel bands. The rear sling swivel is broken. Absent rear sight. Re-varnished stock is solid with a splice under the rear barrel band and repairs around the barrel tang. The action is original and robust. The markings are legible with obfuscated lockplate date. The bore is dim with worn rifling. “Richmond V.A.” marked barrel.
Barrel is 30 inches.
Caliber: .58 Percussion
Overall condition as seen in photos.
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$2500
#256013
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Antique: Yes