Guns International #: 103220684
Seller's Inventory #: 250309

Category - Civil War Rifles - Antique Rifles - Percussion

Category
Civil War Rifles
Antique Rifles - Percussion

1859 mfg. Antique C.S. RICHMOND ARMORY Pattern “HUMBPACK” Two-Band CARBINE Original Style Military Weapon for SOUTHERN STATES

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1859 mfg. Antique C.S. RICHMOND ARMORY Pattern “HUMBPACK” Two-Band CARBINE

Original Style Military Weapon for SOUTHERN STATES

Here we present an antique C.S. Richmond Armory Pattern Two-Band Smoothbore “Humpback” Carbine, though the hump has been removed, made in 1859 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 style 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.

The overall condition is good. Original brown patina throughout. Action is strong.  The stock is solid with a small portion missing to the right of the barrel tang. The bore is dim but good for its age. A brass plate wraps the wrist. Rear sight replacement. The primer tape hollow is filled.

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

Barrel is 25 inches.

Caliber: .58 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$2000

#250309
 

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Antique: Yes