Product Details
A .56-50 RIMFIRE WARNER'S PATENT CARBINE BY GREENE RIFLE WORKS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR, CIRCA 1865, serial no. 1161,
with 20in. barrel stamped with London proofs, fitted with a pinched blade front-sight and a brass fixed vee block rear-sight (probably a period replacement), brass frame and breech block the fixed breech numbered 1161 and the hinged breech 1675, the breech is also stamped with London proofs, the action marked on the left 'GREENE RIFLE WORKS / WORCESTER MASS. / PAT'D 1864', two piece brass mounted walnut stock, half fore-end secured by one spring retained band, small repair to toe of butt (hardly noticeable)
Provenance: The Warner carbines featured a Snider type hinged side swinging breech action, with a centre hammer. Greene carbines were purchased by the U.S. Ordnance of which approx. 1500 were supplied by the Massachusetts Arms Co. in 1864 and a further 2500 by the Green Rifle works in February March 1865. They were issued to at least two regiments of cavalry, by 1870 at least 2500 were sold off as surplus to a noted New York arms dealer who resold them to France during the Franco-Prussian War. Many are known to have London proof marks which indicates they went through London at some point
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Estimate £500-700
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament