Original 19th Century Early Experimental Breech Loader - Smooth Bore with Rifled Barrel Insert U.S. Civil War It is not functional

It is not functional

and the stick retains the wooden plug

which was a brass hilted version without quillon

for heroic achievement in action on 9 April 1945

Goatskin and later Steerhide

Original 19th Century Early Experimental Breech Loader - Smooth Bore with Rifled Barrel Insert U.S. Civil War It is not functionalOriginal Item: One of a Kind. Received from the fabulous collection of Antique 19th Century experimental and Trial guns from Kansas City comes this little gem. No body seems to have any idea of it origin: It could be European, or it could be American. It appears to have made use of a JAEGER type Rifle barrel with sword bayonet mounts on the right hand side like a BAKER or BRUNSWICK Rifle, but this in NOT BRITISH. The very heavy action is of brass with