Product Details
BURNSIDE RIFLE COMPANY, USA
A .50 RIMFIRE REPEATING CARBINE SPENCER MODEL 1865, serial no 27,965,
with 20in. barrel rifled with three grooves, blade and block front-sight, ladder rear-sight, the breech stamped with the legend, "SPENCER REPEATING RIFLE / PAT'D MARCH 6, 1860 / MANUF'D AT PROV. R.I. / BY BURNSIDE RIFLE CO. MODEL 1865", plain unmarked back-action lock with side hammer, the action is fitted with the Stabler magazine cut-off enabling the carbine to be used as a single shot with the magazine held in reserve, two piece walnut stock, the butt housing the spring loaded seven shot tubular magazine and fitted with an iron butt-plate, short forend with a single spring retained barrel band
Provenance: The Spencer is an important collector's arm for two main reasons firstly it was the worlds first efficient and effective repeating arm issued in quantity, secondly due to its use during the American Civil War and the latter Indian Wars. Due to urgent demand during the Civil War the Burnside Rifle Co. manufactured under licence approx. 34,000 Spencer carbines of which 30,502 were supplied to the U.S. government between April and October 1865 and of thes 19,000 were fitted with the Stabler cut-off, The Model 1865 arrived too late to see service during the Civil War but were widely issued and used in the west becoming known as the Indian Wars model and a standard arm of the U.S. cavalry 1866 to 1873.
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Estimate £700-900
Sold as an exempt item under Section 58 (2) of the 1968 Firearms Act, to be held as a curiosity or ornament