A musket.

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1829.  One of the party returned the salute with an old queen’s arm.—Mass. Spy, May 20: from the Dover Enquirer.

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1848.  

        Agin’ the chimbly crooknecks hung,
  An’ in amongst ’em rusted
The ole queen’s-arm thet gran’ther Young
  Fetched back frum Concord busted.
James R. Lowell, ‘The Courtin’.’    

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