Estimate
€ 150 - 250
Sold
€ 438
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length 115 cm
Rifled, 18 mm cal. barrel with octagonal breech (signs of use inside, clean bore, visible rifling), dated and marked "1862 M.S." on the breech (from the owner's research: Michele Salerno, Bourbon controller), with foresight and clutch for the bayonet. Tang with fixed rear sight, screw numbered "20". Lock converted to percussion, with Savoy type hammer. Working mechanism. Full stock with a few filled woodworm holes, but solid. Brass mounnts, brass and iron trigger guard. Various numbered screws en suite. The mouthpiece tends to come loose. Iron ramrod. Socket bayonet with Neapolitan-style department numbering "15R.2. B 103" on the base. Remains of other marks on the tang. Bayonet length: 57.2 cm According to the owner, a Bourbon gendarmerie musket from war reused and converted after the unification of Italy.