qsy-complains-a-lot:Colt M1822/54 conversion rifled musketManufactured c.1816-1820′s at the Harpers
qsy-complains-a-lot:Colt M1822/54 conversion rifled musketManufactured c.1816-1820′s at the Harpers Ferry and Springfield arsenals as flintlock smoothbore muskets based on the Charleville Mle1777, bought and converted by Samuel Colt during the Crimean war - multiple serial numbers..69 ball, single shot caplock muzzle loader, leaf rear sight.One of the rifles ordered by the Russians at the beginning of the Crimean war, provided by Colt’s 1854 patent caplock conversion. -- source link