SHOTGUN MADE FROM SPRINGFIELD MUSKETS PARTS

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Item Code: 218-330

This is a shotgun that was built by J.M. Johnson’s Great Western Gun Works in Pittsburgh, Pa. from Springfield musket parts. The barrel is an 1861 barrel that is 36” in length.  The lockplate is an 1863 Springfield lockplate dated 1864. All the lockplate markings are visible. The stock is made from walnut and the buttplate and trigger guard are made from brass.  Ramrod is made from wood with a brass tip added.

James Hampton Johnston, founder and sole proprietor of the Great Western Gun Works was born in the town of Waynesboro, Franklin County, Pennsylvania, December 16th, 1836. He grew to manhood in his native place, and there learned the trade of gunmaker. Just previous to the beginning of the late {Civil} War, in 1860, he moved to Pittsburgh, and was appointed Master Armourer at the Arsenal there. In this position he served with credit until the close of the war, a period of five years. In the following year, with a small capital, he established the Great Western Gun Works, one of the most rapid and surprising business successes in the great manufacturing city of Pittsburgh. From a business of $2500 in 1866, in 1874 it had grown to the proportions of $150,000 annually and is still increasing. Nor is this success the result of mere chance and a few speculative ventures; it has been the fruit of methodical business habits and that reliance which, with strict integrity and honesty of purpose, distinguishes the character of all self-made men. [Manufactories and Manufacturers of Pennsylvania, pg. 314]

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