Guns International #: 103181159
Seller's Inventory #: 250199

Category - Civil War Carbines - Antique Rifles - Percussion

Category
Civil War Carbines
Antique Rifles - Percussion

CIVIL WAR U.S. Mass. Arms SMITH PATENT Muzzle Loading Conversion Carbine Gun Used into the WILD WEST with LEATHER SCABBARD

Description:
CIVIL WAR U.S. Mass. Arms SMITH PATENT Muzzle Loading Conversion Carbine   

Gun Used into the WILD WEST with LEATHER SCABBARD

Here we present an antique U.S. Massachusetts Arms Co. Smith’s Patent Carbine, made circa 1863 by Massachusetts Arms Co. of Chicopee Falls, Massachusetts, and retailed by Poultney and Trimble of Baltimore, Maryland. This example was manufactured as a breech loader, and sometime after the Civil War, it was converted to muzzle loader. A total of 30,362 of these carbines were made with a production run between 1861 and 1865, and almost all of them were used in the Union cavalry of the American Civil War. Many were used after the war throughout the U.S. including by the Indians during their raids into Canada.

The designer was Dr. Gilbert Smith of New York. His design featured a simple break open action providing a single shot, utilizing a cartridge made of rubber. While many different cartridges were in use simultaneously during the war, which must have been a logistical nightmare, the rubber cartridge was both a nuisance to the shooter who had to get the hot gummy thing out of the chamber once fired, as well as to the ammunition manufacturer, who had to acquire rubber from distant places. In place of rubber, many other materials were also tried.

According to Flayderman, the Smith Carbine was known to have been utilized in number by the 3rd West Virginia, 7th and 11th Illinois, 1st Connecticut, 7th and 17th Pennsylvania, 6th and 9th Ohio, and 1st Massachusetts Cavalries. Included with this gun is a handmade leather scabbard.

The overall condition is good. The original finish has a dark patina.  The stock is solid with grain splitting at the wrist. Dark smoothbore. Legible markings. German silver front sight. Missing rear tang screw. The scabbard is torn around where the muzzle rests but remains intact.

Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.

Barrel is 21 inches.

Caliber: .50 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1800

#250199
 

Antique: Yes

Price: $1,800.00
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