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Swiss (or Belgium) Model 1842 Percussion Infantry Musket?
Last edited by S&WOwner; 05-21-2014 at 09:35 AM.
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05-21-2014 06:56 AM
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Very nice musket and photos. Have never seen one before, so not much help, sorry. The ELG indicates a Belgian proof, though.
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Thanks for the kind words jmoore and (ELG) information.
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Re. your tentative findings:
1 to 4 - I agree with these - Liege-proofed commercial percussion rifle (?) musket, probably made by Beuret Fréres, bought by Canton Neuchatel and (re)numbered 895*** by them. Is it rifled?
5 - The known inspectors' marks are surely of a later, post-1860s generation of Swiss Confederation inspectors, i.e. national not cantonal inspectors? I therefore doubt that the L on a cantonal musket stands for the recorded Inspector Ledermann. Maybe a cantonal inspector whose name also began with L? 4
6 - The same consideration rules out the N as a Swiss manufacture mark, as the musket is clearly of non-Swiss manufacture, and from an era when rifle manufacture had not yet been established on a national basis.
***An example of renumbering. My Swiss Peabody ( a generation later than this musket) also bears the original maker's number, but major parts have been stamped with the Swiss service number.
Last edited by Patrick Chadwick; 05-22-2014 at 06:29 AM.
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Thanks Patrick Chadwick for your comments. Wouldn't it have been wonderful if everyone had to use specific serial numbers so a 150 years later we could just pulled up file and get the history of these puppies! That is what I love about my S&W collection - S&W kept a record of every firearm manufactured with the date of shipment and to who it was shipped to...ah, if life could be that easy.
Again - thanks for your comments.
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