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Antique SPENCER Saddle Ring CAVALRY Carbine CIVIL WAR FRONTIER .50 Rimfire Early Repeater Famous During ACW & WILD WEST
Guns International #: 102648027 Seller's Inventory #: 234012
Category: Civil War Carbines - Spencer Rifles
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Seller: AncestryGunsLLC
Company: Ancestry Guns LLC
Member Since: 11/3/16
State: Missouri
Zip: 65203
Country: United States
Phone: (314) 707-7373
International Phone: 314-707-7373
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Description:
Antique SPENCER Saddle Ring CAVALRY Carbine CIVIL WAR FRONTIER .50 Rimfire
Early Repeater Famous During ACW & WILD WEST
Here we present an antique Spencer Saddle Ring Cavalry Carbine, made circa 1863-1865 in Boston, Massachusetts, during the Civil War. The Spencer is a lever-action repeating rifle designed by Christopher Spencer in 1860, leading some to refer to this example as the “Model 1860”. These lever-operated, breech-loading rifles were marvels of the time and had a lasting impact on how war was to be fought in the future. Though their service life in the U.S. military was relatively short, the Spencer story includes Christopher Spencer, the inventor of the rifle, demonstrating and shooting with President Abraham Lincoln, who gave his full endorsement of the piece. Supposedly, during the battle at Gettysburg, a captured Rebel that day said one could “load in the morning and fire all day!” This was due to the Spencer’s most endearing quality: a 7-round magazine tube in the butt of the gun. This gave the shooter phenomenal firepower in a day when most soldiers were muzzle-loading single shots or even singly loading their breech-loading carbines. This is one of the iconic carbines of the Civil War and Western Frontier.
The Spencer was the world's first military metallic cartridge repeating rifle, and over 200,000 examples were manufactured in the United States by the Spencer Repeating Rifle Co. and Burnside Rifle Co. between 1860 and 1869. The Spencer repeating rifle was adopted by the Union Army, especially by the cavalry, during the American Civil War but did not replace the standard issue muzzle-loading rifled muskets in use at the time. Among the early users was George Armstrong Custer.
This one received the post-war refurbishment that rechambered the gun for .50 Rimfire rather than .52 as well as installed the Stabler cutoff. This carbine would have continued to see use through the Indian Wars of the late-19th Century.
The overall condition is very good. The action is excellent. The bore is in fine condition: shiny bright with sharp rifling. The walnut stock shows a clear cartouche behind the sling ring bar and some single letter inspection marks behind the lower tang. The stock shows use and remains solid throughout.
Own the original! This is a legitimate antique and not a reproduction.
Barrel is 22 inches.
Caliber: .50 Spencer
Overall condition as seen in photos.
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$3750
#234012
Price: $3,750.00
Antique: Yes