Original U.S. Civil War Austrian M1854 Lorenz Percussion Rifle with Replaced Lock Dated 1849 - Maker Marked German Edged Weapons Purchased at auction

Purchased at auction

but we can still make out much of them:

a little over 132 milligrams (2

Gebrüder Hartkopf

these have become nearly impossible to find and deactivated original FG42s are never encountered and the one that did emerge in the UK in the early 2000s sold for over $30

Original U.S. Civil War Austrian M1854 Lorenz Percussion Rifle with Replaced Lock Dated 1849 - Maker Marked German Edged Weapons Purchased at auctionOriginal Item: Only one Available. This is very nice and interesting example of an Austrian M1854 Lorenz Percussion musket, almost certainly imported for use in the U. S. Civil War Many European powers were beginning to move to cartridge firearms, and with a huge market in the United States, sold off many of their soon to be obsolete firearms. Some of these reached the Northern Union forces, but more often, they were sent to the South, which did not