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1863 Sharps Carbine


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I recently obtained this originally configured 1863 Sharps carbine. Serial number C4094. Price was right and condition is okay, not great. I am happy with this one and have wanted one for a long time. 
 

 

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M24 Chaffee

Nice looking rifle and perfect that the price was right! Do you collect Civil War?

 

Frank

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3 minutes ago, M24 Chaffee said:

Nice looking rifle and perfect that the price was right! Do you collect Civil War?

 

Frank


I have a small collection of Civil War pieces. Mostly a few cannon balls, belt plates, and swords. 
 

Chris

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Thank you,

I have found the serial number range. Of course this doesn’t prove the whereabouts of my carbine, but there were many around mine that were assigned to the 1st Maryland Potomac Home Brigade Cavalry Company A. 

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Figured I'd join in on the Sharp's fun - M1859 Carbine, cal .54 manufactured 1861 with a serial number just under 60,000. This one escaped the post-war conversion to .50-70. Never got a chance to fire it, although there's no reason not to - got 25 bullets, caps and powder but haven't had the time to roll cartridges for it. Circumstantial evidence that this may have been issued to Company I, 15th Pennsylvania Cavalry (tale comes free with purchase).

 

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Sharps carbine is also fun to shoot.

 

Back in the 1970s we would go to the Arizona desert and shoot black powder.

 

Some fun times

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