Item Description
Original Item: Only One Available. This is a fascinating antique long gun. It is French and was made at the Royal Armories at St. Etienne as the line Musket adopted in 1777. As such it could have seen service during the later part of the American Revolutionary War, the French Revolution itself and right through the Napoleonic era that culminated with the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.
After Napoleon was finally exiled to St. Helena this musket, together with many thousand others, were returned to government stores. In 1822 it was selected to be re-barreled with a rifled barrel that with 1820's technology had become economically viable. It was never converted to percussion in the 1830s and probably remained in some military backwater until it was sold off as surplus very possibly for use in the U.S. before the civil war.
In amazingly good tight condition it is a long gun that saw a lot of history both in Europe and North America. Still fitted with the early M-1777 lock and iron mounts and with it's later rifled barrel, wood butt still retains various arsenal cartouches.
Offered in nearly excellent condition.
- This product is available for international shipping.
- IMA considers all of our antique guns as non-firing, inoperable and/or inert. Title 18, U.S. Code, Section 921(a)(16) defines antique firearms as all guns made prior to 1899. This law exempts antique firearms from any form of gun control or special engineering because they are not legally considered firearms. No FFL, C&R or any license is required to posses, transport, sell or trade Antique guns. All rifles and muskets sold by IMA that were manufactured prior to 1899 are considered Antiques by the US BATF (United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms).
Therefore, all of IMA's Antique guns may be shipped to all US States and most nations around the world. These antique guns are not sold in live condition. They are sold as collector’s items or as wall hangers. Any attempt at restoring an antique gun to be operational is strongly discouraged and is done so at the risk of the customer. By purchasing an antique gun from IMA you thereby release IMA, its employees and corporate officers from any and all liability associated with use of our Antique guns. Pre-1899 Manufacture, no licenses required, allowed to ship to almost any deliverable address across the globe.
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