Rifle

Museum number:
2-59117
Permalink:
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Alternate number:
7-52 (previous museum number (recataloged from))
Accession number:
Acc.18
Description:
Muzzle loading, percussion rifle. Half-stocked plains rifle with 34 inch octagon barrel. Caliber ca. .52 inches. Small, round patch box mounted in right side of stock. Lock marked “A. W, Spies” and “Warrented”; barrel marked “J. H. Bersto, Buffalo, N. Y.” Both were gun makers of Buffalo; gun possibly made of parts.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
United States
Culture or time period:
United States Historic
Collector:
Zelia Nuttall
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Makers' marks and Rifles (long guns)
Function:
1.1 Hunting and Fishing and 1.7 Fighting, Warfare, and Social Control
Production date:
1850-1860
Accession date:
November 26, 1901
Department:
Nonnative US and Canada (except California)
Comment:
typical sporting rifle of trappers and traders during the mid-19 century U.S.A. Many also traded to the Indians of North America
Images:
Hearst Museum object titled Rifle, accession number 2-59117, described as Muzzle loading, percussion rifle. Half-stocked plains rifle with 34 inch octagon barrel. Caliber ca. .52 inches. Small, round patch box mounted in right side of stock. Lock marked “A. W, Spies” and “Warrented”; barrel marked “J. H. Bersto, Buffalo, N. Y.” Both were gun makers of Buffalo; gun possibly made of parts.
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Rifle, accession number 2-59117, described as Muzzle loading, percussion rifle. Half-stocked plains rifle with 34 inch octagon barrel. Caliber ca. .52 inches. Small, round patch box mounted in right side of stock. Lock marked “A. W, Spies” and “Warrented”; barrel marked “J. H. Bersto, Buffalo, N. Y.” Both were gun makers of Buffalo; gun possibly made of parts.

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