CONFEDERATE RELIC LEMAT PISTOL FROM FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE.

CONFEDERATE RELIC LEMAT PISTOL FROM FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE. Cal 42.18 ga., SN801. This transitional model LeMat has mostly 1st model features with exception of placement of loading arm (which is missing anyway). It is thought among serious students of LeMat that maybe 50% or more of actual Confederate used LeMats were used without loading assemblies; this is based on the few battle field recovered examples and the survival of guns with known use that the loading assemblies had been removed or broken off. Loading assemblies could have broken off from use as the lightweight design caused much stress when repeatedly used. Its quite possible and likely that guns used in the field were field loaded prior to battle and the bulky loading assembly could get in the way when firing and removing from holster. Regardless of why so many early numbered LeMats are missing their loading assemblies, this wonderful excavated example, which is still loaded in at least six of its nine cylinders had had the loading assembly removed including the latch. This gun, when it was lost by one of N. B. Forrest’s cavalrymen near the banks of the Harpeth River, was being used in the configuration it exists in now without a loading arm. This is a wonderful relic with only one discernible serial number, “801” which is seen on left frame, under where stocks would have been. This gun was from the collection of Fred and Nancy Edmunds and is sold with a file of provenance from the Edmunds’ Gettysburg museum. CONDITION: Very good “as excavated”. Typical excavated surfaces of rust and pitting throughout. exposed lead bullets in chambers and a white lead oxide patina. 4-40819 JS51 (5,000-7,000)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2010

Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

Image	Lot	Price	Description
	2390	$8,050.00	CONFEDERATE RELIC LEMAT PISTOL FROM FRANKLIN, TENNESSEE. Cal 42.18 ga., SN801. This transitional model LeMat has mostly 1st model features with exception of placement of loading arm (which is missing anyway). It is thought among serious students of LeMat that maybe 50% or more of actual Confederate used LeMats were used without loading assemblies; this is based on the few battle field recovered examples and the survival of guns with known use that the loading assemblies had been removed or broken off. Loading assemblies could have broken off from use as the lightweight design caused much stress when repeatedly used. Its quite possible and likely that guns used in the field were field loaded prior to battle and the bulky loading assembly could get in the way when firing and removing from holster. Regardless of why so many early numbered LeMats are missing their loading assemblies, this wonderful excavated example, which is still loaded in at least six of its nine cylinders had had the loading assembly removed including the latch. This gun, when it was lost by one of N. B. Forrest’s cavalrymen near the banks of the Harpeth River, was being used in the configuration it exists in now without a loading arm. This is a wonderful relic with only one discernible serial number, “801” which is seen on left frame, under where stocks would have been. This gun was from the collection of Fred and Nancy Edmunds and is sold with a file of provenance from the Edmunds’ Gettysburg museum. CONDITION: Very good “as excavated”. Typical excavated surfaces of rust and pitting throughout. exposed lead bullets in chambers and a white lead oxide patina. 4-40819 JS51 (5,000-7,000) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2010 Please Note: All prices include the hammer price plus the buyer’s premium, which is paid by the buyer as part of the purchase price. The prices noted here after the auction are considered unofficial and do not become official until after the 46th day.

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