Original U.S. Civil War Sharps & Hankins Model 1862 Sliding Breech Naval Carbine - Serial No 8579 Japanese Ordnance The musket is all brass

The musket is all brass mounted

and possess the ability to carry weapons and men over all sorts of rough terrain

we never had one of these before and saw this one at the Baltimore Gun Show in March 2014

This all came about because one of our neighbors visited his son in Maine and the son had a copy of the 1st book

Company director Christian Cranmer would suggest the revolver was expressly purchased for a valued NCO in an elite Regiment that shipped out to the Crimea for the Anglo/Russian war

Original U.S. Civil War Sharps & Hankins Model 1862 Sliding Breech Naval Carbine - Serial No 8579 Japanese Ordnance The musket is all brassOriginal Item: Only One Available. Known as the Sharps & Hankins Model 1862 carbine, this weapon is a wartime . 52 caliber rimfire breechloading firearm designed by Hartford, Connecticut native Christian Sharps. Presented is a nice original example of that engineering design called the Navy type carbine, which had its barrel covered in a black leather covering as rust protection against the sea elements. Like almost all that we see, the leather