Tell me more! Frank wesson carbine?

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I was perusing Rock Island Auction catalog and came across this interesting carbine (least to me) that I don't think I had seen or heard of before. Any additional info on its numbers, use, ECT would be interesting. Also note it had some type of inlay on reverse stock that has been removed, which seemed curious to me, as whatever it was would have added to its value if it was there, right?

Frank Wesson First Type Two-Trigger Military Carbine | Rock Island Auction

Civil War Era Frank Wesson First Type Two-Trigger Military Carbine with SlingBenjamin Kittredge & Co. of Cincinnati, Ohio, is known to have supplied these carbines to the following states for use during the Civil War: Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky, Kansas, and Missouri. Though this example does not...

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Note if any collectors are interested, by all means go for it, I'm not interested on bidding on/buying it. I'm starting out more interested in traditional ACW muzzle loaders.

Am just interested in its history, from little I've dug up, they seemed to have been accurate, a simple design compared to repeaters, yet still higher rate of fire then muzzleloaders. Why wouldn't an arm like this been more widely ordered and mass produced?

 

[JOHN42768]

Take a look at thread https://civilwartalk.com/threads/frank-wesson-type-1-two-trigger-carbine-early-1863.188844/ I posted mine a few months ago. Somewhere in it's life a screw was added at the wrist by someone thinking it was missing.. Guessing the stock had a descriptive plate and was displayed somewhere.

 

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As a carbine, were any produced with saddle rings?

 

[JOHN42768]

Regarding the saddle ring. Go to my posting link above and in the last entry go to the link and you will see that they used the front swivel mounted on the wrist using the open hole.