Brown Bess Musket
Object Details
- Jordan, Edward
- Description
- Physical Description
- Re-stocked Long Land pattern Brown Bess musket, .80 caliber, lockplate marked Jordan, dated 1746.
- General History
- The metal parts of this musket were made by Edward Jordan of Birmingham, England in 1746. The original wooden stock was replaced with the distinctive club butt stock of the Massachusetts colony.
- Credit Line
- William G. Renwick
- 1746
- associated date
- 1746
- ID Number
- AF.245168.043
- collector/donor number
- R0087
- catalog number
- 245168.043
- accession number
- 245168
- Object Name
- musket
- Other Terms
- musket; Firearms; Flintlock; .79 In; Muzzle Load; 00; Sa
- Measurements
- overall: 8 in x 60 in x 3 1/4 in; 20.32 cm x 152.4 cm x 8.255 cm
- place made
- United Kingdom
- Associated Place
- United Kingdom: Grand Bretagne
- See more items in
- Military and Society: Armed Forces History, Military
- Military
- Exhibition
- Price of Freedom
- Exhibition Location
- National Museum of American History
- National Museum of American History
- Subject
- Firearms
- related event
- Revolution and the New Nation
- Record ID
- nmah_418807
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a2-1b83-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
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