AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD LIGHT INFANTRY CARBINE.

AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD LIGHT INFANTRY CARBINE. This American Light Infantry Carbine or Officer’s Committee-of-Safety type fusil has a 42″ two stage .68 cal British Light Infantry bbl of the Seven Years War period with faint London proofs. The Walnut stock has a dark oil finish, a relief Beaver tail panel around the bbl tang and Brown Bess like swelling on the fore stock at the rear entrance ferrule. All brass parts appear to be American cast on the basis of the 1st or 2nd model Brown Bess including the hazelnut trigger guard, convex side plate with tail, the wrist escutcheon, long butt plate tang and cast ramrod pipes and nose cap. This is the very same exact musket/carbine illustrated in George Neuman’s History of Weapons of the American Revolution page 120, plate # M.102.This Carbine is also illustrated in Robert Reilly’s book United States Martial Flintlocks on page 49 plates 93 and 94. Reilly states “The lines are essentially long and slender, somewhat reminiscent of early Pennsylvania rifles, but following no basic pattern”. The arm was possibly produced for an individual, most likely an officer, during the Revolutionary War according to Reilly. PROVENANCE: Louis H. Gordon Jr. Collection. CONDITION: The lock appears to be orig flint and the carbine has a uniform finish throughout. All parts seem to be orig and the stock shows no signs of abuse. There are indentations cast into the American trigger guard look which never was drilled out to mount a sling swivel. What may have been a third ramrod pipe is missing and apparently was never installed. There is a very small wood filled repair under the tail of the lock from the sear wearing away the wood. Stock appears to have been artificially darkened at one time. 4-40000 RG10 (5,000-7,500)

Auction: Firearms - Spring 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
	2530	$6,037.50	AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR PERIOD LIGHT INFANTRY CARBINE. This American Light Infantry Carbine or Officer’s Committee-of-Safety type fusil has a 42″ two stage .68 cal British Light Infantry bbl of the Seven Years War period with faint London proofs. The Walnut stock has a dark oil finish, a relief Beaver tail panel around the bbl tang and Brown Bess like swelling on the fore stock at the rear entrance ferrule. All brass parts appear to be American cast on the basis of the 1st or 2nd model Brown Bess including the hazelnut trigger guard, convex side plate with tail, the wrist escutcheon, long butt plate tang and cast ramrod pipes and nose cap. This is the very same exact musket/carbine illustrated in George Neuman’s History of Weapons of the American Revolution page 120, plate # M.102.This Carbine is also illustrated in Robert Reilly’s book United States Martial Flintlocks on page 49 plates 93 and 94. Reilly states “The lines are essentially long and slender, somewhat reminiscent of early Pennsylvania rifles, but following no basic pattern”. The arm was possibly produced for an individual, most likely an officer, during the Revolutionary War according to Reilly. PROVENANCE: Louis H. Gordon Jr. Collection. CONDITION: The lock appears to be orig flint and the carbine has a uniform finish throughout. All parts seem to be orig and the stock shows no signs of abuse. There are indentations cast into the American trigger guard look which never was drilled out to mount a sling swivel. What may have been a third ramrod pipe is missing and apparently was never installed. There is a very small wood filled repair under the tail of the lock from the sear wearing away the wood. Stock appears to have been artificially darkened at one time. 4-40000 RG10 (5,000-7,500) Auction: Firearms - Spring 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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