About .56 caliber. 27.5" octagonal barrel. SN: NSN. Browned metal finish with brass fittings. Jaeger style walnut stock has checkering to straight grip and a carved cheek piece to left side. Percussion rifle with two leaf folding notch rear sight and globe post front sight. Item features a wood patchbox cover, double sling swivels, tang mounted peep sight, and six-groove rifling. Tang has carved floral molding. Lock appears to have been converted to percussion and possibly restocked at some point during the mid-19th century, with front sight and tang sight also possibly added during this time. Barrel is engraved with script reading Baetz a Nurnberg to top flat. Included with item is wood ramrod and tang peep sight housed in patchbox.

Barrel most likely made by Johann Christian Paul Baetz of Nurnburg, active from about 1794 to 1808/9 according to Stockel.