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A Triplett & Scott Carbine, Kentucky Marked, Meriden Manufacturing Co., Serial No. 3199, circa 1864
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
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Description
- Steel, Walnut wood
.50 caliber, round barrel with fore and rear-sights, left-side of breech marked KENTUCKY, color case-hardened frame marked MERIDEN MAN'FG CO. / MERIDEN, CONN on left-side, serial number 3199 stamped on right side of frame, breech-tang marked TRIPLETT & SCOTT / PATENT DEC. 6, 1864, sling swivels on comb of butt-plate and on underside, color-hardened trigger-plate, barrel-band and butt-plate, oil-finished walnut fore-end and butt-stock
22-inch barrel
Louis Triplett, Columbia, Kentucky, inventor
C. D. Pennebaker, Agent for the State of Kentucky, wrote to the Quarter-Master General of the United States Army (December 11th, 1868):
No. 4
Triplett Rifles
"I am in receipt of a sample of these rifles, consigned to me by the Quarter-Master General of Kentucky, with instructions to find a market for them. I have been in communications, both by letter and in person, with both foreign ministers and consuls, relative to the sale of them.
My opinion is, that the city of New York affords a better opportunity for their disposal than Washington."
Approximately 5,000 were made.
22-inch barrel
Louis Triplett, Columbia, Kentucky, inventor
C. D. Pennebaker, Agent for the State of Kentucky, wrote to the Quarter-Master General of the United States Army (December 11th, 1868):
No. 4
Triplett Rifles
"I am in receipt of a sample of these rifles, consigned to me by the Quarter-Master General of Kentucky, with instructions to find a market for them. I have been in communications, both by letter and in person, with both foreign ministers and consuls, relative to the sale of them.
My opinion is, that the city of New York affords a better opportunity for their disposal than Washington."
Approximately 5,000 were made.