Sharpes Civil War Rifle
Sharps Civil War
Antiqued English Pewter 1/6 mounted replica of the Sharps Civil rifle along with a 45-70 Govt round (deactivated) and a short information panel.
On black baize, with green mount and housed in a walnut coloured frame.
size (glass) 277mm x 208mm
Panel Reads :-
Sharps rifles are a series of large-bore single-shot rifles, beginning with a design by Christian Sharps in 1848, and ceasing production in 1881. They are renowned for long-range accuracy. By 1874 the rifle was available in a variety of calibers and had been adopted by the armies of a number of nations and was one of the few successful designs to transition to metallic cartridge use. The carbine version was very popular with the cavalry of both the Union and Confederate armies and was issued in much larger numbers than other carbines of the war and was top in production in front of the Spencer or Burnside carbine. The falling block action lent itself to conversion to the new metallic cartridges developed in the late 1860s, and many of these converted carbines in .45-70 Government were used during the Indian Wars in the decades immediately following the Civil War.
