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A Very Rare .577 1853 Pattern Third Model Percussion Rifle Musket Converted to Mon Storm's Patent for Ordnance TrialsNo. 6, Dated 1860, The Breech-Block Signed by the Converter F.A. Braendlin Fecit, 1863
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A Very Rare .577 1853 Pattern Third Model Percussion Rifle Musket Converted to Mon Storm's Patent for Ordnance Trials
No. 6, Dated 1860, The Breech-Block Signed by the Converter F.A. Braendlin Fecit, 1863
No. 6, Dated 1860, The Breech-Block Signed by the Converter F.A. Braendlin Fecit, 1863
92.5 cm.
Footnotes
Francis Augustus Braendlin was the manager of the Mont Storm Gun Works recorded at 33 and 93 Constitution Hill, Birmingham, between 1863 and 1865. Braendlin, together with William Mont Storm (an American) made longarms under a number of British patents including Braendlin's Patent No. 2147 of 31 August 1863. Braendlin went on to form Braendlin, Somerville & Co. (1868-1871) producing various lever-operated cartridge extracting systems for breech-loading revolvers, and the Braendlin Armoury Co. Ltd. (1871-1889) dealing principally in imported Belgian arms and components
This is one of nine designs selected for trial in 1864 (this being no. 6 of 12 Mount Storm converted Enfield rifles) by the Ordnance Select Committee as a breech-loading conversion of the 1853 pattern rifle musket. The system was officially adopted by the British Government in 1865 for the conversion of all its muzzle-loading military longarms, and a pattern to guide the production of the first 3,000 was approved on 30 September. The first shipment of paper cartridges from Eley's would not fit the breech chamber, and the case-hardening of some of the breeches was faulty, resulting in the system being rejected in favour of Snider's metallic cartridge system. For more information see Ian D. Skennerton, A Treatise on the Snider, 1979, pp. 29-40








