Product Details
LINDNER, USA
A VERY RARE .58 PERCUSSION CAPPING BREECH-LOADING CARBINE, MODEL 'LINDNER'S PATENT', serial no. 5809,
manufactured probably at Amoskeag Mfg. Co., New Hampshire between 1861-63 and possibly an unrecorded variant, with tapering round iron 20in. barrel, dove-tailed blade fore-sight, carved buckhorn type rear-sight with additional folding leaf, locking breech-cover rotating through 180 degrees to release the rear-hinged sprung breech, the octagonal breech itself marked 'EDWARD LINDNER'S PATENT, MARCH 29 1859', brass top-tang and nocksform cover, plain bevel-edged lock stamped with a small eagle device at tail and the serial number, beech half-stock possibly repurposed from another but following original lines, with a filled aperture for a patch-box on the right hand side of butt, brass furniture, iron saddle-bar with brass ring on left hand side, swivels removed and filled.
Provenance: This elusive American Civil War carbine was made in two models. The first model was sold in small batches of approximately 500 guns to two Michigan and West Virginian cavalry units. The second model was set up at the end of 1863 with an order for 6000 pieces completed in 1864. For some reason unknown, the US government declined acceptance and it is rumoured that the whole consignment was sold to an unknown European country in 1870 during the Franco-Prussian war and seemed to have completely disappeared. This is probably one of these guns after a post war refit and the brass furniture, (the originals had iron), would suggest French or Belgian usage.
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Estimate £600-800