Object Details
- Description
- US Model 1842 Musket, a percussion lock musket with wooden gunstock and metal barrel and furniture. Etched into lock plate is [SPRING / FIELD / 1848]. Gunstock is damaged, possibly from rot, on what would be a right-handed wielder's side of the stock.
- Data Source
- National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Manufactured by
- Springfield Armory, American, 1777 - 1968
- Owned by
- Old Slave Mart Museum, American, founded 1937
- Date
- ca. 1848
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Medium
- metal , wood
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 8 1/4 × 50 15/16 × 2 3/16 in. (21 × 129.4 × 5.5 cm)
- Type
- muskets
