This is a cool gun with an attractive look and an even cooler conversion! It is a nice Civil War era conversion of a single shot military pistol. The gun started life as a Asa Waters manufactured single shot military pistol. These guns hold a special place in American firearms history. They are the model 1836 pistol which was the last flintlock pistol acquired by the Government. Starting with the next model, the model 1842, they only bought the percussion pistols. The lockplate has only the clear markings of the Waters maker mark and Milbury, Massachusettst production location. It also has the clear the production date "1837" stamped below the maker mark. When it was made it would have been a flintlock pistol. At the outbreak of the Civil War many small firms converted these flintlocks into percussion. This one has such a crude conversion that is surely Confederate in manufacture and is one of the styles they say were converted in Virginia. They utilize the hammer that is well made and is patterned after a smooth European design. You can see the casting flaws in the hammer as well as the lack of the cross hatching on the spur. They added the bolster onto the breech of the barrel and as you can see it is designed like the musket design with the brass from the pan being mostly left in place. The actions of the lock mechanics work on each position. The barrel is full-length with a beautiful light gray color. Under the barrel it has the original ramrod and sling swivel intact and fully functional. The stock of the gun has a very pleasing dark tone all over. You can still clearly see the inspector cartouche in the wood on the opposite of the lockplate. This stamp is where the U.S. Government inspector approved the gun for military use when it left the factory in 1837, by the inspector Mann Page Lomax. This is a cool original single shot military pistol from the Waters firm with, in my opinion, a purely confederate conversion.

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