first model Morse carbine, SN 44, cal .50, overall 39-1/4 in.; accompanied by James Julia catalog of Ben Michel Collection
Provenance: James Julia, Ben Michel Collection of Confederate Arms, October, 2007, Lot 1000, $27,600; Property from Historic Dean Hall Plantation, South Carolina
Note: Production of inventor George W. Morse's patent carbines at the State Military Works in Greenville, South Carolina, resulted in the delivery of about 1,000 such carbines.
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James Julia, Ben Michel Collection of Confederate Arms, October, 2007, Lot 1000, $27,600; Property from Historic Dean Hall Plantation, South Carolina
bbl is gray/brown, cleaned showing scratching and pitting, brass frame, nose plate, and buttplate show numerous scratches and dings, some porous areas due to casting, buttstock shows traces of original varnish, small repair to forestock adjacent to nose cap, buttstock has several chips at frame, gap between part of frame and buttstock, buttplate missing jag
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