Original Model 1816 Waters Contract Musket - Dated 1833 - State of South Carolina Marked German Flare Guns The album begins in February

The album begins in February 1936 in Pontresina Switzerland (about 200 km from Germany’s souther border)

Squared-off engraved tsuba (cross guard) with gold highlighted menuki (grip decoration)

personal time

attached to 17th Bombardment Group

Original Model 1816 Waters Contract Musket - Dated 1833 - State of South Carolina Marked German Flare Guns The album begins in FebruaryOriginal Item: Only One Available. Genuine US M1816 Asa Holman Waters (Millbury, MA) Contract of 21,560 muskets delivered to the Federal Government between 1817 1836. Lock plate shows Waters markings in front of the hammer: US A. WATERS And vertically behind the hammer: MILLBURY 1833 Cartouche of S. C. faintly visible on left side of stock by side plate, we believe this is a marking for SOUTH CAROLINA placed on the musket by the Confederate state