Product Details
A RARE AND EARLY .56/52 SPENCER RIMFIRE FALLING-BLOCK CARBINE 'MODEL 1861' BY MERWIN & BRAY, USA, serial no 1702,
with 22in. rifled barrel, fore-sight missing, leaf battle sights to 500 yards, rounded action body stamped on the left side 'MERWIN & BRAY / AGT'S N.Y, / 1702', and on the right side 'BALLARD'S PATENT / NOV 5 1861', iron mounted two piece walnut stock, the butt scratched with an old owners initials 'W. H. M', on the left side, iron crescent style butt-plate, half fore-end with one spring retained barrel band and sliding cartridge ejector handle protruding through fore-end at breech, the carbine retaining some traces of blue to barrel
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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