Rifles

Artist Alvan Pratt 1790 - 1877

Date1835-1845

Terms

Rifles
Nickel Alloy
Silver
Steel
Walnut
Concord (Massachusetts)

Dimensions20.31 × 2.54 × 98.99 cm (8 × 1 × 39 in.)

Credit LineGift of Mr. Peter A. Albee (1985)

Object numberA2209

DescriptionSteel, walnut, silver, nickel alloy mounts. Small size; boy's rifle. Half stock rifle, caliber around .38, percussion lock, octagonal barrel with metal rib underneath. Engraved silver plaques depicting a dog and a pair of quail inset into the stock and the patchbox, opened with a concealed spring, has an engraved German-silver cover. The removable rifled barrel hinges into the breech; the gun was probably sold with a second, unrifled, barrel now missing. The rifle was converted from flintlock to percussion in the nineteenth century. A peep sight is missing from behind the breech.