WM READ&SONS
It has a single barrel that is octagonal in shape. It's a percussion gun. Buckhorn sights with a front single brass blade. It has a brass side plate with some small but detailed scrollwork. The side plate reads as in the subject line. There are three screws holding in the butt plate and three screws holding in the trigger guard both of which are made from brass it seems. The weapon is clearly unloaded as the ramrod goes all the way home. There are two guides for the ramrod before it enters into the stock. The four into the stock has a green metal that is non-magnetic I think it's pewter but I'm not sure. It has a single trigger. The wood is Walnut and looks like it's pretty but it's hard to tell underneath all the coats of boiled linseed oil.
The barrel mic'd 45 caliber at the muzzle and has no visible rifling but is pretty decently rusted so it is hard to tell. This is going to be a wall hanger for someone of course but I'm trying to see if anybody has any idea what I'm dealing with here I did a little research on the company just a little Googling nothing crazy and it seems like the company get started in the 1850s but I'm having a hard time dating exactly when this one was made because there's no other proof markings or dates that I can find out on the barrel or the stock I have yet to remove the barrel from the stock and will do so maybe there will be something underneath there that I can find.
The barrel mic'd 45 caliber at the muzzle and has no visible rifling but is pretty decently rusted so it is hard to tell. This is going to be a wall hanger for someone of course but I'm trying to see if anybody has any idea what I'm dealing with here I did a little research on the company just a little Googling nothing crazy and it seems like the company get started in the 1850s but I'm having a hard time dating exactly when this one was made because there's no other proof markings or dates that I can find out on the barrel or the stock I have yet to remove the barrel from the stock and will do so maybe there will be something underneath there that I can find.
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Listed in my reference, as being a dealer. Located in Boston MA. Advertising muzzle & breech loading sporting guns. This was after the C*i*v*i*l W*a*r, (early 1870's?).
Being no proof marks, probably made in the U.S. By a gunmaker/gunsmith, who either sold his guns through Read. Or worked for Read, as a subcontractor.
Although cartridge firearms came into general use. Shortly after the end of the war, in 1865. Muzzle loaders were manufactured and used. Probably into the 1880's, in the U.S.. And much later than that in the colonial possessions of the European countries.0 -
There will not be any proof marks on the barrel of American muzzle loading rifles. There may be a barrel makers name on the underside of the barrel, Remington being the most common. It is impossible to date the rifle. You can only go by the time the maker was in business and the style; early, middle or late 1800's. 0
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