WONDERFUL REPRODUCTION RARE 1″ MODEL 1866 PERCUSSION GATLING GUN ON FIELD CARRIAGE.

WONDERFUL REPRODUCTION RARE 1″ MODEL 1866 PERCUSSION GATLING GUN ON FIELD CARRIAGE. Cal. 1″. Spectacular hand crafted reproduction 1″ percussion M1866 Gatling gun with 1871 improvements, six 43-1/2″ bbls and 3-5/8″ trunnions with brass housing. mounted on an accurately reproduced 1860’s artillery field carriage which was the same carriage as used on the orig guns. This is the only known reproduction of the now believed extinct M 1866. Only sixty-two of the orig 1″ Gatling guns were ever made, with sixty-one of them made in 1866 and one more in 1871. Reference The Gatling Gun Notebook, Hughes, p. 6 & 11. Six of the orig guns were made at the Miles H. Greenwood Foundry in Cincinnati, Ohio which burned down with all the blueprints & patterns destroyed. Production was moved to the Cincinnati Type Foundry Works where there were thirteen more made and then the Cooper Firearms Mfg. Co. made eight more. Later in 1866 production was transferred to Colt’s Patent Firearms Mfg. Co. in Hartford, apparently where the balance of the production was completed. Most of these were sold to Francis Bannerman in 1902 who resold them to foreign governments and presumably they are now destroyed. Percussion Gatling guns use a separate loaded chamber with percussion musket cap on a nipple at the closed end and are fed from a stick magazine style hopper into the rotating breech mechanism which fires them in their turn and drops the empty out the bottom for re-use. This fine reproduction Gatling is accompanied by 24 machined steel chambers with an O-ring groove around the front end for gas seal. Also accompanied by two of the sheet metal stick magazine hoppers, and 2 boxes of cleaning gear & spare parts. This carriage is by J.C. Bidwell of Pittsburgh and has about 59″ diameter wheels with an approx. 78″ wide axle with standard artillery trail that is approx. 100″ from tip of trail to front of wheels. Consignor states that this Gatling gun has been fired each year at the North/South Skirmish Association Cannon Shoots and is extremely destructive to the targets, more so than the 6-pounder cannons. CONDITION: Fine and complete. Has been fired but not abused. Retains most of its orig finish. Carriage is outstanding retaining most of its orig custom green paint. 4-35108 (20,000-30,000)

Auction: Firearms - Fall 2008

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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	2547	$0.00	WONDERFUL REPRODUCTION RARE 1″ MODEL 1866 PERCUSSION GATLING GUN ON FIELD CARRIAGE. Cal. 1″. Spectacular hand crafted reproduction 1″ percussion M1866 Gatling gun with 1871 improvements, six 43-1/2″ bbls and 3-5/8″ trunnions with brass housing. mounted on an accurately reproduced 1860’s artillery field carriage which was the same carriage as used on the orig guns. This is the only known reproduction of the now believed extinct M 1866. Only sixty-two of the orig 1″ Gatling guns were ever made, with sixty-one of them made in 1866 and one more in 1871. Reference The Gatling Gun Notebook, Hughes, p. 6 & 11. Six of the orig guns were made at the Miles H. Greenwood Foundry in Cincinnati, Ohio which burned down with all the blueprints & patterns destroyed. Production was moved to the Cincinnati Type Foundry Works where there were thirteen more made and then the Cooper Firearms Mfg. Co. made eight more. Later in 1866 production was transferred to Colt’s Patent Firearms Mfg. Co. in Hartford, apparently where the balance of the production was completed. Most of these were sold to Francis Bannerman in 1902 who resold them to foreign governments and presumably they are now destroyed. Percussion Gatling guns use a separate loaded chamber with percussion musket cap on a nipple at the closed end and are fed from a stick magazine style hopper into the rotating breech mechanism which fires them in their turn and drops the empty out the bottom for re-use. This fine reproduction Gatling is accompanied by 24 machined steel chambers with an O-ring groove around the front end for gas seal. Also accompanied by two of the sheet metal stick magazine hoppers, and 2 boxes of cleaning gear & spare parts. This carriage is by J.C. Bidwell of Pittsburgh and has about 59″ diameter wheels with an approx. 78″ wide axle with standard artillery trail that is approx. 100″ from tip of trail to front of wheels. Consignor states that this Gatling gun has been fired each year at the North/South Skirmish Association Cannon Shoots and is extremely destructive to the targets, more so than the 6-pounder cannons. CONDITION: Fine and complete. Has been fired but not abused. Retains most of its orig finish. Carriage is outstanding retaining most of its orig custom green paint. 4-35108 (20,000-30,000) Auction: Firearms - Fall 2008 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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