M1860/67 Landmark.

Technical information:

Name: M1860/67 Landmark

Production year: 1862/67

Serialnumber: 374

Calibre: 4 linjer, later 12,17x44R

Magasin capacity: 0, singelshot

Weight:

Produced at: Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk.

Stockmaterial: Birch

Lockmechanism: Breachloader percussion, later changed to Landmarks patent.

Approved by the navy:

Number produced: About 500

The navy adopted the patent that Jens Landmark came up with while he was executive director at the factory in the periode 1855-1880. The army adopted the Lund patent, which you can read more about here. All of the navy archives were burnt during WW2 and that makes it hard to find credible information about the navy kammerlader rifles. What we do know is that there were not as many produced to the navy as to the army. As far as I know only about 500 were ever produced of the different models of kammerlader rifles for the navy. This makes them rather scarce, but the prices are often not as high as one could imagine. The reason for this is that most kammerlader collectors prefer the army models.

The rifle you see here is a rebuildt M1860 kammerlader. Landmarks patent that is mentioned here was based on replacing the chamber with a rather complex mechanism. See pictures.... After this reconstruction the rifle could now use the top modern metal cartridge, 12,17x44R.