Sold at Auction: 1863 TOWER (ENGLISH MADE) CIVIL WAR MUSKET - Invaluable 1. a brass 3 on the top of the stock just behind the barrel. 1863 Tower Enfield Percussion 2 Band Short Musket? $ 2,250.00 Category: Firearms This fine British manufacturered longarm is a standard .577 caliber Enfield Pattern 1853 Type 1 rifle-musket as carried by hundreds of thousands of Union and Confederate forces in the field. The P53 Enfields capabilities were largely lost by the lack of marksmanship training by both the Union and Confederacy. There are only 2 bands around the barrell having a . Tower Players - Rumson-Fair Haven Regional High School 1863 Enfield Tower Confederate Musket - Guns International The belly of the stock has the furnisher mark "Joseph Smith." The lock is clearly stamped 1863 / TOWER in two lines forward of the hammer. Davide Pedersoli's reproductions are imported into the United States by the Italian Firearms Group located in Amarillo, Texas. They were made for export and used by both sides. By collecting seeds from your own garden or buying them in bulk, you can save money on future purchases. There is a small metal plate with the name of FRANK D ASSO on the left side of the rifle on the stock opposite side of the crown behind the hammer. This musket is stamped with a British Crown. There were.3 lengths of the rifle and this is the mid length version. BIRMINGHAM EXPORT PRODUCTION Let's start bidding on the best fine arts and antiques, Enter email to create an account to start bidding on the best fine arts and antiques. The bore needs cleaning but is Bid live during the auction and your bids will be submitted real-time to the auctioneer. This particular rifle was built by "C Turner". Now you can dress up your office desk or man cave with a 1:3-scale replica of the best battle implement ever devised.. The barrel, the breech plug tang and the stock "D". George Schuyler and Marcellus Hartley weresent to Europe as purchasing agentsby the Union to compete directly with Confederateagentslike CalebHusewho were scouring Europe in search of weaponry to arm their cause. The original Pritchett design was modified by Col. Boxer, who reduced the diameter to 0.55 after troops found the original 0.568 too hard to load during the Indian Mutiny, changing the mixed beeswax-tallow lubrication to pure beeswax for the same reason, and added a clay plug to the base to facilitate expansion, as the original Pritchett design, which relied only on the explosion of the charge, was found to cause excessive fouling from too slow an expansion, allowing unburnt powder to escape around the bullet.
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