Original U.S. Civil War Smith's 1857 Patent Saddle Ring Carbine by Massachusetts Arms Co. - Serial 552 Cannons It is decorated with a

It is decorated with a very nice stamped aluminum eagle insignia on the peak and and an open silver bullion embroidered wreath surrounding a metal tri-color cockade on the band

The barrel is marked with the correct London CROWN / P proof and CROWN/ V viewed marks

There are no real records of where the knife came from

The call to protect soldier’s vision came early in the war from two French oculist experts who published a study on eye wounds in the Bulletin de la Societe d’Ophtalmologie

The barrel is wrapped in blacked pebbled leather

Original U.S. Civil War Smith's 1857 Patent Saddle Ring Carbine by Massachusetts Arms Co. - Serial 552 Cannons It is decorated with aOriginal Item: Only One Available. The Smith Carbine was a 0. 50 caliber breech loading rifle patented by Gilbert Smith on June 23, 1857 and successfully completed the Military Trials of the late 1850s. It was used by various cavalry units during the American Civil War. It was unique in that it broke apart in the middle for loading, and that it used rubber cartridges which sealed the gases in the breech. The downside was that these cartridges were