Spencer Rifle with Pics - need help
Hello everyone. Can someone please help me identify this Spencer rifle? It appears to have a low serial number of 763 stamped on it. I believe it has an 18" barrel. Thank you all in advance.
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It looks to me like an 1865 Spencer carbine (barrel should really be 20", muzzle to breech face) as made under contract by Burnside Rifle Co. About 34,000 made in 1865-1866 to supplement the 23,000 made by Spencer at that time and the many 1860 models already in service. Your low serial number was surely made in 1865.
I can't tell whether it was used in the Civil War, if so, only near the very end.0
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