3 parts in stock
c. 1820–1870
Percussion
A written overview of this era is still to come. It goes through the same check as everything else here — nothing is published as fact before Butch Schoeller has confirmed it.
The plate corpus
Plates placed on this era
24 of 137 shown
These are grouped by how the arm fires, not by pattern. The records behind them identify a mechanism and a date — a patent sheet names neither the maker’s model nor the arm it ended up in, and an armoury catalogues by ignition system — so none of them is a claim about a particular gun. Where a sheet carries a mechanism classification it is named beneath the plate, and that too describes how the part works rather than which arm it came off.
Patent drawings · 64 sheets
The original engineering drawings, filed by the people who designed these mechanisms, with every component called out and numbered. One sheet is shown per filing: a patent’s sheets are pages of one drawing rather than separate drawings. The specification pages of each filing — the prose, which is most of it — are not shown, because a page of type is not a drawing.
Surviving arms · 73 photographs
Museum and armoury photography of arms of this ignition system. The caption under each is the source record’s own title, printed as it stands — including the holding institution and its accession number where the record carries them, because that is what lets a reader go and check the plate.
717 plates are filed under this era; 137 of them are shown here. The rest are held back for one of two reasons — the scan is too small to read, or the page is specification text rather than a figure. A patent is mostly prose, and a page of type is not a drawing of anything. The rest of the reference is reachable on the other two axes.
Model families
Arms of this era
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The reference
Parts of this era
27 part types · 135 documented
The components documented on the arms of this era, and which of those arms each one is recorded on. Following an arm goes to that arm’s own entry for the part; following the component crosses the whole catalogue instead.
- Band Springs
5 documented
- Barrel Bands
5 documented
- Bayonet Lug
5 documented
- Bolster
5 documented
- Buttplate
5 documented
- Buttstock
5 documented
- Cartouche
5 documented
- Conversion Bushing
5 documented
- Forestock
5 documented
- Front Sight
5 documented
- Maynard Tape Primer Mechanism
5 documented
- Nipple
5 documented
- Nipple Protector
5 documented
- Nosecap
5 documented
- Patchbox
5 documented
- Percussion Hammer
5 documented
- Ramrod
5 documented
- Ramrod Pipes
5 documented
- Ramrod Spoon
5 documented
- Rear Sight
5 documented
- Side Screws
5 documented
- Sideplate
5 documented
- Sling Swivels
5 documented
- Snail
5 documented
Showing 24 of 27 part types documented in this era. All part types
From the bench
Available now (25)
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- Steel trigger plate for Springfield and Harpers Ferry
- Enfield 3 band musket ramrod,thick shaft
- U.S. 1841 Mississippi rifle Ramrod
- U.S. model 1855/1861 rifled musket ramrod
- 1853 Sharps slant breech rifle and carbine percussion hammer
- British Enfield percussion musket nipple, reproduction.
- Dolphin head percussion hammer right
- Dolphin head percussion hammer Left
- U.S. model 1840 and 1842 musket ramrod
- Palmetto musket front brass barrel brand/1842 musket
- Cartridge conversion hammer for the 1858 Sharps straight breech rifle and carbines
- U.S. 1855 Harpers Ferry and Springfield steel patchbox
- U.S. 1841 Mississippi rifle brass front barrel band
- Enfield 3 band musket ramrod /thin shaft
- U.S.1841 Mississippi Rifle all steel ramrod for the 58 caliber conversions
- U.S.1841 Mississippi rifle ramrod for the 58 caliber conversions
- British Snyder carbine cleaning rod.
- U.S. percussion musket nipple. 1842 to 1864
- 1863 Springfield ramrod
- 1855 Harpers Ferry rifle and musket brass butt plate.
- U.S. 1855 Maynard primer rifled musket door
- Sharps percussion rifle and carbine hammer
- 1855 Harpers Ferry rifle brass nose cap
- U.S. model 1855 Percussion rifle ramrod
Showing 24 of 25. The model pages above carry the rest.
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Sources
12 sources
Period and institutional material relevant to this entry. Listed so it can be checked, not as decoration — nothing here has been through expert review yet.
- 1.Colt Third Model Dragoon Percussion Revolver, serial no. 12406Samuel Colt · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1828
- 2.Percussion LongrifleJohn Settel · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1830
- 3.Pair of Percussion Target Pistols Made for Display at the 1844 Exposition des Produits de l'Industrie in ParisAlfred Gauvain · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1844
- 4.Percussion Target RifleJulius Grudchos · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1830
- 5.Colt Model 1855 Pocket Percussion Revolver, Serial no. 4460, with Case and AccessoriesSamuel Colt · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1851
- 6.Pair of Percussion Target Pistols Made for Display at the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London, 1851Alfred Gauvain · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1851
- 7.Colt Paterson Percussion Revolver, No. 5, Holster Model, serial no. 940Samuel Colt · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1815
- 8.Colt Model 1851 Navy Percussion Revolver, serial no. 2Samuel Colt · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1850
- 9.Cased Pair of Percussion PistolsLouis-Julien Gastinne-Renette · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1825
- 10.Percussion PistolMetropolitan Museum of Art · 1792
- 11.Colt Walker Percussion Revolver, serial no. 1017Samuel Colt · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1847
- 12.Double-Barreled Percussion ShotgunLouis Perrin · Metropolitan Museum of Art · 1854