Both sights, magazine tube, butt swivel, sling bar and ring are in place. Springfield re-rifled the bores with three grooves, and filed the edges of the frame at the ejection port to prevent hang-ups. It is the standard Civil War carbine that was sent to Springfield in 1867 to be retrofitted. The carbine is complete and mechanically fine.
SPENCER CARBINE SERIAL NUMBERS SERIAL NUMBER
This one is serial number 44754, putting it a little more than half-way through the production run of carbines that started around number 11,000 in 1863 and ended around 61,000 in 1865. 52 rimfire cartridges and once they hit the field in the Fall of 1863 any ordnance race between Union and Confederate cavalry was pretty much over. I gladly paid $4000 for it last month along with a dozen other great guns I bought out of a super collection… TOP SHELF $4,500.00ġ6-11-35 …MODEL 1860 CIVIL WAR SPENCER CARBINE WITH SPRINGFIELD UPDATE… The quintessential Yankee cavalryman’s carbine. There is a slight run to the finish on the upper left of the receiver, some shift to brown on the top, and a couple of shallow drag lines on the left butt flat, but its as mint an example as you are likely to find anywhere with a price that won’t keep you up at night. This is a great late Civil War to early-Indian War cavalry carbine.
About 19,000 of them were fitted with the Stabler cut-off, as this one is, to enable troopers to keep the rounds in the magazine in reserve. The production run was roughly 34,000 with 90 percent going to the government. 50 caliber carbine with a 20-inch barrel, but Burnside factory used 3-groove rifling.
These were numbered in their own serial number range and follow the same configuration as the Spencer factory Model 1865. Nice case color on the loading assembly as well.
SPENCER CARBINE SERIAL NUMBERS FULL
Full Model 1865 and Burnside contract information on top flat of receiver. Wood a nice medium brown with sharp edges, vivid inspector and sub-inspector cartouches at left wrist also near buttplate tang. Full, deep blue barrel color (95%) and rear sight color as well. Beautiful, just slightly muted, “gasoline on water” swirling case color on the receiver and lockplate. Smokin’ 1865 Burnside contract Spencer Carbine. 16-11-34 …NEAR MINT SPENCER CARBINE… The best I have owned.
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