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Sharps Carbine Conversion to Sporting Rifle
Guns International #: 101016017 Seller's Inventory #: 34787
Category: Sharps Rifles - Antique - Antique Rifles - Cartridge
Seller's Information
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Seller: Joe Salter com
Company: Down East Antiques - Joe Salter
Member Since: 9/10/10
First Name: Garrick-March-Jim-Joe
Last Name: Salter
State: New Hampshire
Zip: 03031
Country: United States
Phone: (603) 732-4000
Fax: (603) 732-4200
Platinum Seller
Number of Active Listings: 1393
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Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
FREE SHIPPING FOR ORDERS OVER $500! We also have a 30 day Inspection Period and NOT a 3 day Inspection.
Payment Types Accepted: We take all major credit cards with NO CREDIT CARD FEES! Also Check or Money order.
About Us: Joe Salter has been in the Antique and Collector Weapons business for 60 years as both a collector and dealer. Our company is based in Southern New Hampshire and we have had an internet based store front for the past 20 years. We are federally licensed and deal in all types of firearms and related material. We offer free Shipping for orders over $500.
Description:
Serial #97921, .45-70 Sharps, 30 1/2" heavy octagon barrel with an excellent, bright bore. This is a nice rifle, built on a percussion carbine frame, and has remnants of the primer assembly visible on the right side, and the front sling bar attachment milled flat. The barrel has an overall dark plum-brown patina with thin freckling and spots of pinprick pitting throughout, with slightly heavier pitting on the receiver, which has a mottled gray patina throughout, and a small British acceptance mark on the left of the breech. The rifle is equipped with open sights, and double set triggers. The forend has numerous small handling marks and blemishes in the added varnish finish, along with a linear, with-the-grain crack along the edge of the metal on the left side. The straight-wrist stock has coarse checkering, and numerous small handling marks and blemishes, as well as a bare screwhead, without bolster, on the left side. The rifle was part of the collection of Constable John Anderson of the W.R. Yorkshire Constabulary. P.C. Anderson became a gun dealer after he retired and, according to his son in an accompanying information sheet, purchased this rifle in 1971 at a Weller & Dufty . A July 16th, 1971 Birmingham Proof House certificate also accompanies the rifle, and declares the rifle obsolete, thus exempt from proof firing. This is a very nice Sharps Carbine Conversion, very similar to the one illustrated on pg. 185 of “Sharps Firearms" by Frank Sellers (1978). Antique
SOLD
Antique: Yes
Manufacturer: Sharps
Model: Sporting Rifle
Serial Number: 97921
Caliber Info: .45-70
Gauge Info: .45-70