St. Blasien lock Plate

[RSMorris]

Got this St. Blaisen lock plate from an auction(ebay) Is supposedly a French M1816 converted to percussion.
Known as a "Wurttemburg Conversion Musket"
College Hill Arsenal has a big write up on these.

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collegehillarsenal.com

Also found this link where a Northern soldier carried one of these during the war.

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teva.contentdm.oclc.org

 

[tankredi]

The lock plate is from a Badenian m1813/40m.
Some pictures and information on this type of rifle can be found here:

Baden: Infanteriegewehr M 1813/40UM – Kuratorium zur Förderung historischer Waffensammlungen

waffensammler-kuratorium.de

The Wurttemberg conversion is similar but the Badenian rifle had a very distinct hammer.

I live about 20km away from St. Blasien.
The armory in St. Blasien was established in the early 1800s, after the secularization of the abbey following Napoleons victory over the German states.
The armory was ill-fated and was later transformed in a mechanical workshop, only to go broke some 20 years later.

Last summer I was responsible for the construction of a school on the former grounds of the armory.
Before the construction would start, archeologist conducted vast digging operations on the ground. They found quite a bite of gun parts and also many medieval relicts and remains of structures.

 

[RSMorris]

The lock plate is from a Badenian m1813/40m.
Some pictures and information on this type of rifle can be found here:

Baden: Infanteriegewehr M 1813/40UM – Kuratorium zur Förderung historischer Waffensammlungen

waffensammler-kuratorium.de

The Wurttemberg conversion is similar but the Badenian rifle had a very distinct hammer.

I live about 20km away from St. Blasien.
The armory in St. Blasien was established in the early 1800s, after the secularization of the abbey following Napoleons victory over the German states.
The armory was ill-fated and was later transformed in a mechanical workshop, only to go broke some 20 years later.

Last summer I was responsible for the construction of a school on the former grounds of the armory.
Before the construction would start, archeologist conducted vast digging operations on the ground. They found quite a bite of gun parts and also many medieval relicts and remains of structures.

Thank you for the info! Will read through it today.... I should have put Badenian instead of Wurrtemberg. Even the College Hill article said it is really Badenian.