Amazingly this Southern made Palmetto musket was worked on no less than three times by Confederate Ordnance! This fine condition Model 1842 pattern percussion musket was manufactured in 1852 by the Palmetto Armory of Columbia, South Carolina. The Palmetto Armory was a private manufacturing firm established in 1851 by William Glaze and Benjamin Flagg. In 1851 South Carolina contracted with the Palmetto Armory for weapons to arm the state militia during the Secession Criss of the 1850s. Included in the contract was an order for 6,000 percussion muskets The Palmetto muskets were among the first put into the hands of South Carolina's volunteers in 1861.

The smoothbore .69 caliber barrel had no rear sight. The fine oil finished black walnut stock has an iron butt plate. The barrel, lock plate, trigger guard, side plate and butt plate are National Armory Bright. The lock plate has the distinctive Palmetto Armory markings that consist of "COLUMBIA/S.C. 1852" stamped in two vertical lines behind the hammer and a narrow trunk palm tree ("spiral tree") circled by "PALMETTO. ARMORY. S*C." with a five-pointed star between the "S" and "C". The barrel tang is stamped "S.C." The left side of the barrel is marked with "V/P/Palm Tree" proof and inspection marks parallel to the bore. "W.G. & CO." is stamped on the left barrel flat. The ramrod is original and threaded. When original manufactured the three bands on this arm were brass and although "Gun Show Wisdom" has it that these muskets were also produced with iron barrel bands it is now the belief of many scholars that iron bands captured at Harper's Ferry replaced brass. This was done by the Confederacy who needed the brass for sundry other war expediencies. This arm is textbook proof of this. We draw your attention to the ubiquitous "C & R" letters stamped on the belly of this fine arm. Please, if possible, refer to Steven Knott's groundbreaking work " Captured and Collected" Confederate Reissued Firearms. Published by The Horse Soldier, Gettysburg, PA.

This weapon was worked on no less than three times by Confederate Ordinance! The letters "T" and "Q" as well as "&" are clearly visible on the belly of the stock. It is our belief that at one of these "re-working" sojourns that iron bands replaced the brass ones. The writer has examined 3 other iron mounted Palmetto muskets over the years all had a Confederate "C&R" letter stamped on them: usually "Q". This musket was originally sold decades ago by us to Richard Abel of Lancaster PA. and has subsequently been a world class Confederate collector's hands. Important!  [pe] [ph:L]

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