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ORIGINAL SPENCER AND SHARPS CARBINE FORE STOCKS – LIKE NEW OLD STOCK:  These are original fore stocks for Model 1860 Spencer Carbines and Model 1859-1868 Sharps Carbines.  Maintained in the US Army inventory, these fore stocks were apparently intended as replacement pieces to refurbish the carbines, as each bears the inspector’s initials, yet appear to be unused.  This is a one time offering of these scarce replacement pieces, discovered recently in an old collection and they are not the sort of pieces I would expect to see again.   

Each is described in detail below with accompanying photographs.  

 

#1 Original Model 1860 Spencer Carbine Fore Arm:  In like new, unissued condition, this fore arm is complete with the steel screw washer and the barrel band spring, which retains the original blue finish.  The inspector’s stamp immediately behind the screw hole is bright and legible, and the wood is overall smooth with no cracks, splints, dings or loss of edges on the barrel channel.  The only blemish is a circular impression on the right side where it appears the fore arm was packed against something else.  SOLD

 

#2 Original Models 1859-1868 Sharps Carbine Fore Arm:  In like new, unissued condition, this fore arm is complete with the steel screw washer and the barrel band spring, which retains the original blue finish.  The inspector’s stamp on the swell that mates with the breech block is bright and legible, and the wood is overall smooth with no cracks, splints, dings or loss of edges on the barrel channel.  $250

 

#3 Original Models 1859-1868 Sharps Carbine Fore Arm:  In unissued condition, this fore arm has a little more sign of age from storage and handling.  It is complete with the steel screw washer, but no barrel band spring (easily obtained).  The inspector’s stamp on the swell that mates with the breech block is bright and legible.  There is some discoloration to the wood which would decrease with an applied oil finish.  The wood is overall smooth, but there are some handling marks and light marks along the tops of the barrel channel edge.  However, all the other edges are sharp and there are no cracks, splints, or heavy dings.  $225

 

#4 Original Models 1859-1868 Sharps Carbine Fore Arm:  In unissued condition, though showing some evidence of age from storage and handling, this fore arm is complete with the steel screw washer and the barrel band spring, which retains the original blue finish.  The inspector’s stamp on the swell that mates with the breech block is present and legible.  The wood is dark, but overall smooth with no cracks or splints, and only slight loss of sharpness on the lower corners of the breech block swell.  The barrel channel edges are sharp.  $225

 

#5 Models 1859-1868 Sharps Carbine Fore Arm:  Due to the look of the cuts in the barrel channel and the density of the wood, I am inclined to believe this is an extremely well executed reproduction fore arm, and it is being sold as a reproduction.  Exactly cut to the correct pattern and identical in every way to the originals, it is in like new condition, with no finish ever having been applied, is complete with the steel screw washer and the barrel band spring with a bright blue finish, all the edges are sharp, and the wood is overall smooth.  There is no inspector’s stamp.  $50

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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