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IDENTIFIED
CONFEDERATE P-53 ENFIELD
BY BARNETT, LONDON

Barnett had a contract with the Confederacy for P-53 Enfields.  He lost his contract sometime in 1862.  That makes this a pretty early blockade run Enfield.  The gun has the standard Barnett, London marked lockplate and London proofs on the barrel.  It also has stamped just in front of the butt late tang, a JS within a circle.  This is one of the early Confederate inspector marks.  There is also an unbordered AW stamped at the end of the trigger guard.  The gun is well used with no repairs to the wood, relatively smooth, lightly cleaned metal.  I don't see any bore left in it but it seems otherwise intact.  There is a name stamped all over it.  It seems that Private E. Glover thought a lot of it and stamped his personal property mark all over it.  The name E. Glover is stamped twice on the trigger guard, four times on the stock, twice on the nose cap and once on the butt plate.  The South had no shortage of men whose sir name was Glover with at least one initial E.  From what I can see, there is only one name listed in the records as "E. Glover" which is an exact match to the stamping on this gun.  He is in the 40th Regiment of Alabama Infantry.  The 40th was organized in 1862 at Mobile.  It then moved to Vicksburg.  Some of it was captured at Vicksburg and other parts of it went on to fight at Chickamauga, etc.  It was there at the end, fighting at Bentonville in North Carolina and surrendered at the Yadkin River Bridge.  You can be certain that this is a Confederate Enfield.  The identification, I would say is somewhat tentative and needs more research. SOLD!!