Original U.S. Civil War Austrian M1854 Lorenz Percussion Rifle with Replaced Lock Dated 1849 - Maker Marked Japanese Guns & Ordnance issued to Oberleutnant and later

issued to Oberleutnant and later Hauptmann Ernst Beiker

There is an anchor with a large gear on top of it

The leather frog does show a bit of wear

Rawlins Esq're on a brass plaque on the front

Original U.S. Civil War Austrian M1854 Lorenz Percussion Rifle with Replaced Lock Dated 1849 - Maker Marked Japanese Guns & Ordnance issued to Oberleutnant and laterOriginal 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