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All made in Birmingham and with Birmingham proof marks.

1, Birmingham Small Arms Trade Association Pattern 1853 Rifle Musket lock dated 1862

2, Maker not known, Pattern 1856 Army Short Rifle, lock markings "lost"

3, Marker not known, Snider-Enfield based on a Pattern 1858 Navy Short Rifle, lock dated 1867

4, Parker-Hale repro Pattern 1861 Artillery Carbine (erroneously called a muskettoon, that was a name used by PH for the American market)

4 lovely examples of gunsmithing art!

very nice, do you use them?

Very, very nice. Thank you for sharing.
I've only (still do) owned the PH repros but this year I am determined to buy and shoot a snider.

Mine goes bang and makes smoke ,

AL8 wrote:very nice, do you use them?

The only one not on my FAC is the recently acquired P53, however not sure yet if I'm going to shoot it yet. The Snider and P56 do get used from time to time and before anybody asks they both passed Birmingham BP proof sometime back in the 1860's and there's no need to submit to a re-proof.

Lovely rifles