Product Details
SHARPS USA,
A .52 CAPPING BREECH-LOADING CAVALRY CARBINE 'NEW MODEL 1859', serial no 63,387,
with 22in. round barrel rifled with six grooves, stamped "SHARPS RIFLE MANUF. CO. HARTFORD CONN." and at the breech "NEW MODEL 1859", and bearing the serial number 63,387 on the action tang, fitted with a tangent rearsight the ladder missing, block and blade front-sight, the lock marked to centre "SHARPS PAT. OCT. 5TH 1852" and at the top just below the pellet primer mechanism "R. S. LAWRENCE PATENT APRIL 12TH 1859", pellet primer top and mechanism missing, iron mounted two piece walnut stock with iron butt trap and side rib, ring missing (fore-end cracked and repaired).
Provenance: This Sharps carbine was the main arm of the Federal cavalry during the U.S. civil war approx. 30,000 New Model 1859 carbines with iron patchboxes were made 1861 to 1863, this example dating 1862 making it a true civil war gun.
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Estimate £700-900