Dings to stocks, with 9" horizontal scratch to right side of butt stock. Sharps Model 1874 Sporting Rifle The serial number is marked horizontally along the back of the receiver. Walnut stock, round barrel, iron furniture, checkered hammer, slightly curved butt plate, blade front sight and folding rear ladder sight, sling bar and ring mounted on the left side of the receiver. 5TH 1852," left side of barrel before breechblock with "E.A.W" inspector mark, butt plate tang with "W" inspector mark. 12th 1848," right side of lockplate marked "R.S. Carbine is serial 68881 and is identified by Springfield Research Service. LAWRENCE/PATENTED/FEB 15TH 1859," left side of the receiver marked "C. This weapon is a Civil War Model 1863 Sharps carbine made by the Sharps Rifle. Top of barrel marked "SHARPS RIFLE/MANUFG CO./ HARTFORD CONN." before the rear sight and "NEW MODEL 1863" between the breechblock and the rear sight, rear sight marked "R.S. Case Study: Carroll Cloar (Janu– April 10, 1993)Ĭivil War era Sharps New Model 1863 breech-loading carbine.Case Study: Anna Catherine Wiley (Knoxville, TN, 1879-1958).Case Study: Richard Jolley (Knoxville, TN).M1859 SHARPS CARBINE BUTTSTOCK With Patchbox Inlet, Walnut, Requires Final Fitting, Reproduction. Case Study: Great Road Pottery of East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia SLANT BREECH SHARPS CARBINE FOREND, Walnut, Requires Final Fitting, Reproduction.Items that are not a fit for Case auctions.The cartridge gun followed less than a year later in When the Civil War.
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