- On View
- Slavery and Freedom Gallery
- Museum Maps
- Objects in this Location
- Exhibition
- Slavery and Freedom
- Created by
- Unidentified
- Date
- 1770-1779
- Medium
- walnut, brass (alloy), iron and steel
- Dimensions
- H x W x D (a): 57 1/2 × 8 5/16 × 1 7/8 in. (146.1 × 21.1 × 4.8 cm)
- H x W x D (b): 20 11/16 × 2 3/4 in. (52.5 × 7 cm)
- Description
- A Committee of Safety musket (a) and wooden hexagonal nut (b), made circa 1770s. This .80 caliber musket is constructed of a medium dark walnut stock. Its butt plate, trigger guard, proper right lock plate, frizzen, breech, and barrel bands are brass, it has a stored iron ramrod, and there are no discernable lock plate markings. The proper left side of the breech is engraved, “SS”, along the stock and there are scattered/unclear engravings between the space of the barrel and stock on the proper left side.
- Place made
- Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
- Classification
- Weapons and Ammunition
- Type
- muskets
- Credit Line
- Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
- Object number
- 2018.116.1ab
- Restrictions & Rights
- No Known Copyright Restrictions
- Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.




