Original U.S. Regulation Model 1892 Field Trumpet Bugle Recovered from U.S.S. Maine with Provenance Spanish Flags are the initials JLC in

are the initials JLC in a style that exactly matches the script found on Chamberlain ‘s Moore's Patent Firearms Co revolver that is currently in the collection of the Maine Military Historical Society

The cleaning rod / bayonet is in good shape

He sent it home just before his death in April 1945

A generation that has never seen a wartime threat to our prosperity and has been spoiled by not having had to work for it

so if this is a re-stock it almost certainly occurred early in the gun's life

Original U.S. Regulation Model 1892 Field Trumpet Bugle Recovered from U.S.S. Maine with Provenance Spanish Flags are the initials JLC inOriginal Item: One of a kind set. REMEMBER THE MAINE! The battlecry echoes even to this day! It was the incident that led to the SpanishAmerican War, a relatively brief conflict lasting just under 4 months. It was the conflict that announced the arrival of the United States as a world power. Often overlooked however is the fate of the U. S. S. Maine (ACR 1) itself, which had sunk in Havana Harbor, occupying valuable space. It was not until 1910 that