Beschreibung:

.69 caliber. 42" round barrel secured by three flat, spring-retained barrel bands. SN: NSN. Bright finish, iron furniture, walnut stock. Single shot, smoothbore, muzzleloading flintlock musket. Lock marked in two horizontal lines below the pan, D. NIPPES / U.S. and in four vertical lines at the tail: MILL / CREEK / PA / 1846. Lock reconverted to flint. Breech plug tang dated 1844 and left breech with US / JH inspection marks and with a raised P in depressed starburst proof. Counterpane with two script cartouches, the first is only the outline with no legible letters and second is the WAT of accepting Ordnance Officer William Anderson Thornton. U.S. on buttplate tang. Retains original brass blade front sight, both sling swivels and the steel trumpet head ramrod that is full-length with threads on the end. The US Model 1840 Musket was the last of the US flintlock infantry long arms and was rather quickly superseded by the Model 1842. The guns were only produced by three makers, Springfield Arsenal who produced 30,421 between 1840 and 1844, Lemuel Pomeroy who produced 7,000 between 1840 and 1846 and Daniel Nippes who produced 5,100 between 1843 and 1847. The large majority of the Model 1840 muskets were never issued for use, as they were being delivered well into the percussion era when they had already been made obsolete by the Model 1842. As a result many sat in storage at the various arsenals until they were altered to percussion, having never seen use as flintlocks. In the case of Nippes's contract guns some 2,000 were altered to the Maynard tape priming system, many before they even left Nippes' factory as flintlocks. Those alterations alone leave only 3,100 flintlock Model 1840 muskets from that contract, with the large majority of them later being altered to percussion by the more conventional US arsenal cone in barrel system. This is a nicely done reconversion to flint of one of those Nippes contract musket, allowing the collector to add a "flint" 1840 to their collection without having to spend a considerable amount of money. Condition: Good to very good. Metal cleaned to bright with some scattered light pitting, particularly in the breech area. Markings in metal mostly clear, weaker in wood. Lock mechanically functional but the frizzen spring is quite weak. Smooth bore is very good, with moderate oxidation and some pitting. Stock with moderate wear, showing scattered bumps, dings and mars.