✅ SOLVED Civil war bayonet ?

[Mark1985]

Found this today along with a eagle button and most of a ram rod not sure what it is I'm pretty sure it's period

 

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[TheCannonballGuy]

It is the iron fore-cap from the wooden stock of a pre-civil-war era musket. The smaller tunnel on its underside held the ramrod. Yours is too rust-encrusted for me to be certain about which model of musket it is from.

 

[Mark1985]

Cannon this is the ram rod I dug it fits right in any way to tell by the rod

 

[NOLA_Ken]

The end cap looks similar to the one for the US Model 1847 Artillery Musketoon. I'm not 100% sure that's what you have but it's a good candidate.

U.S. Springfield Model 1847 Artillery Musketoon Dated 1847

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

That is definitely an Enfield type of ramrod. (The one in the photo below is from an Enfield Model-P1853 rifle.) Unless the musket is also British and from that "general" time-period, the ramrod is a mismatch to it.

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

Here's a photo of the forestock's iron endcap on the US Model-1842 Springfield musket (a .69-caliber Smoothbore).

 

[kuger]

cool piece!Good candidate for some slow electrolisis,in stages

 

[Mark1985]

Can't mark it as solved from my I phone ... By the way cannon thank you for being awesome again

 

[TheCannonballGuy]

You're welcome. But NOLA_Ken deserves credit also, because there is apparently no difference between the endcap of the Model-1842 Springfield and the Model-1847 US Artillery Musketoon he linked to.

Far more Model-1842 Springfield muskets were manufactured than 1847 Artillery Musketoons. So, your endcap is statistically much more likely to be from a Model-1842 musket, but the 1847 Musketoon is still a possibiity. No way to know for certain, because both were .69-caliber gunbarrels.

 

[NOLA_Ken]

Pretty sure CannonballGuy is right about it being from an 1842, I missed the part about the ramrod being broken, and operating on the thought it could have come from the same gun, looked to the shorter barrelled musketoon.

 

[Mark1985]

Thank you both for the I'd ! made my dads day that he found something