CIVIL WAR Era Antique BELGIAN Percussion Imported MILITARY Rifle-Musket Used by both UNION and CONFEDERATE Armies

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CIVIL WAR Era Antique BELGIAN Percussion Imported MILITARY Rifle-Musket    

Used by both UNION and CONFEDERATE Armies

Here Ancestry Guns presents an antique Belgian Percussion Rifle-Musket, manufactured circa the late 1850s to early 1860s in Liege, Belgium. This example of one of the tens of thousands of European muskets and rifles imported to arm early war volunteers in the American Civil War. Many of these arms were made in Liege, who’s gun makers produced copies of regulation arms for a number of European countries.

There were many muskets purchased by the Union agent Hartley throughout Europe. Many weapons were imported in large quantities and was issued, and disliked, by thousands of Union infantrymen. Imported arms played a key role in the early years of the war before the U.S. armories and contractors could catch up in production. Some estimates of imported French and Belgian arms place their numbers close to 150,000 examples.

The overall condition is good. Bright gray patina. Robust action. The bore is bright with aged, but nice rifling. The stock is refinished, remains in good shape, with cartouche remnants on the right side. Liege proofed left barrel flat. Drilled and tapped barrel tang.

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

Barrel is 40-1/2 inches.

Caliber: .69 Percussion

Overall condition as seen in photos.

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$1200

#265010
 

Antique: Yes

Price: $1,200.00
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