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#B01 Collection of Civil War weapons and items from an old fellow from South Dakota. This all belongs to an old friend of mine and the items consist of a Model 1842 Springfield (dated 1849) 69caliber musket complete with bayonet and a musket Peace flask, a Colt 1860 Army 44cal revolver, a Model 1860 Non-Commissioned Officers sword and scabbard, and a kepi with a Musicians device. The musket is a deep brown with overall medium pitting on the barrel, about average or a squeek better than what is seen nowadays at most gunshows, and the bayonet is missing the locking ring. The markings are good on the musket lockplate and on the bayonet, but the cartouches are long gone. The Peace flask has serious dents on both sides, charger has been shortened or replaced, and it is unmarked as to the maker. The Colt is matching except the backstrap and grips, action doesn’t seem to want to rotate fully and cock all the way to full cock, so will need some tuning up to operate correctly (usually just a new hand spring and cylinder bolt spring, but without tearing it apart, I cannot say for certain). The cylinder is pitted fairly heavily and no amount of scene is evident; the barrel has only minor pitting and a decent address line. The NCO sword is about VG-VG+ with decent scabbard and an 1862 date, Ames Manufacture and no deficits of mention. The kepi looks genuinely old, but perhaps is not as old as the Civil War and could be one from either the Indian Wars or perhaps a CW reunion. The lining is the typical red silk, the visor shows the cracking of age, and the side chin strap buttons are the standard Federal type …but one would think it should be more moth-eaten if it were from the Civil War era. I’m no authority on headgear, so I’ll leave that to better minds to ponder. All these items have been hanging for decades in a mountain cabin in the hills near Yosemite Nat’l Park, and the owner is now too old to visit the cabin and his children and grandchildren have no interest in having these passed down any further in the family, so he is selling the LOT for $2450 plus the shipping. It sure makes a dandy display; I saw it for the first time about 40 years ago!