OE - GOOD - some minor replacement parts; metal smoothly rusted or lightly pitted in places, cleaned; principal lettering, numerals and design on metal legible; lightly scratched, bruised or minor cracks repaired; in good working order.

One of 100 sold to Hon. Silas Bent (previously a flag lieutenant on the expedition to Japan under Matthew C. Perry) of St. Louis and shipped to William Read & Sons in Boston, Massachusetts, on June 8, 1878, in this configuration.

OE - GOOD - some minor replacement parts; metal smoothly rusted or lightly pitted in places, cleaned; principal lettering, numerals and design on metal legible; lightly scratched, bruised or minor cracks repaired; in good working order.

The factory letter confirms it was part of a ten gun shipment in the current configuration to J. P. Moores Sons in New York City on July 29, 1880.