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THE .58 PERCUSSION RICHMOND ARMORY CONFEDERATE M1855 RIFLED MUSKET CARRIED BY JAMES CLAY OF THE 18TH VIRGINIA AT GETTYSBURG,
dated for 1862, with round 'in the white' 40in. barrel, block and blade fore-sight, 'L' shaped flip-over back-sight (correct 'T' cut-out beneath sight), inspector's marks and date at breech, solid top-tang with rounded tip, nipple boss with screwed plug, flat 'low hump' lockplate with bevel edge and signed 'C.S.' over 'RICHMOND V.A.' on the bar, 'C' shaped hammer and dated to the tail, walnut full-stock (small areas of historic burning forwards of nipple boss and to right side of top-tang at head), inscription to right face of butt (see below), iron furniture except for brass nose-cap, three barrel-bands, iron swivels and cup-ended iron ramrod
Provenance: This Richmond rifled musket is identified to Private James Clay of the 18th Virginia Infantry. This identification is confirmed by the attractive inscription hand-carved into the butt:- "James Clay 18 Virginia". This sits above a curved line of thirteen stars. After the war, James Clay wrote an article for the "Confederate Veteran" magazine in which he describes the death of his Brigade commander, General Richard Garnett, at the high point of Pickett's Charge on July 3 1863. It might rightly therefore be assumed that this rifle musket was carried by Clay in that same famous charge
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Estimate £8,000-12,000