Rifle
- Object Name:
- Rifle
- Object ID:
- 1946.037.02
- Creator:
- Spencer Repeating Rifle Company
Gunsmith - Place of Origin:
- Boston, MA
- Date:
- 1863
- Description:
- Rifle. Spencer Repeating Carbine; .52 caliber; 22" round barrel; breech-loading repeater. Half-stocked, 7-shot rimfire arm; 15" wooden buttstock; cartridge storage through a trap steel plate on the butt plate, magazine located inside; barrel is fastened to stock with 1 band and retaining spring; sling swivel under buttstock; steel furniture includes barrel, front sight, rear elevating sight, rolling breech block, trigger guard, curved butt plate with 2" tang, sling swivel on underside of stock at butt, handle at left of stock; two gunsights present: brass blade pinned into iron fixed frontsight, at tip of barrel and 800 yard graduated, spring-based type with single folding leaf and slide bar rear sight, at back of barrel. "SPENCER REPEATING- / RIFLE CO., BOSTON, MASS, / PAT'S MARCH 6, 1860" stamped on top of barrel near front of breech; "51563" serial number is stamped at rear of breech block; retaining spring is missing.
- Material:
- Wood
Metal
Brass
Iron - Dimensions:
- L-39 inches
- Provenance:
- Bequest of Samuel Dana Bell to the New Hampshire Historical Society.
- Credit Line:
- Bequest of Samuel Dana Bell
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