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$2,250.00

GR-1025-6670, Spencer Model 1860 Carbine. Serial number 55,xxx. .52 cal. The gun is mostly covered in a thick dark brown patina. There are strong flashes of original blue finish mixing to a brown patina on the barrel. I see no case color on the frame but there is a lot of case color on the block. The wood is excellent, wood to metal fit is excellent. It is perplexing to me that there is no cartouche on the stock. It could have been a militia or civilian gun. This is an example of a really great gun that was stored poorly. Crisp tight mechanics. Excellent bore.

Est. Retail Value: $3000

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The Spencer Model 1860 carbine was the brainchild of Christopher M. Spencer, who patented the design just before the Civil War broke out. Built at the Spencer Repeating Rifle Company in Boston, it was a lever-action repeater chambered for t a metal cartridge. Shorter and handier than the rifle version, the carbine was aimed directly at cavalry and mounted infantry. The U.S. Army was slow to adopt it at first, fearing the expense and the need to supply so much ammunition, but by 1863 the weapon began to see large-scale issue.

What set it apart was simple — firepower. A soldier could fire seven shots in quick succession before reloading, at a time when most soldiers on both sides still had to stand and ram powder and ball down the muzzle. Soldiers loved the Spencer for its speed, reliability, and ruggedness. The sealed metallic cartridges fired in almost any weather, and with the later addition of the Blakeslee cartridge box, a cavalryman could reload whole magazines in seconds.

During the war, Spencers proved their worth in the hands of units like Colonel John T. Wilder’s “Lightning Brigade,” which broke through at Hoover’s Gap in 1863 largely because of their firepower. George Armstrong Custer’s Michigan cavalry carried them at Gettysburg, and Spencers were used in major battles such as Nashville and beyond. Time and again, small groups of men armed with Spencers were able to stand off much larger enemy forces, and that reputation stuck with the carbine long after the war ended.

Countless Union troopers swore by the carbine. By the close of the Civil War, more than 100,000 Spencer rifles and carbines had been produced, and the design left a lasting mark on American firearms history.

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