razorback1010
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I've just found an original Spencer carbine, and before ordering a CF breechblock for it I'd like to find as many infos as possible about it.
First of all, it seems unfired. My guess is that carbine is one of the 44,000 Spencers shipped to France in 1870 and which mostly stayed in army arsenals for lack of ammunitions.
The breechblock, firing pin and the inside of the barrel are factory new. The serial number is 32135, the marking on the top of the receiver is "spencer repeating rifle co boston mass" the third line is mostly erased and you just guess "pat march...". On the right side of the receiver it is stamped "137". on the left side of the barrel, near the receiver there's a very small "p". There's a bigger "p" followed by "s2" on top of the barrel under the front-stock ring. The loading lever has a "m" stamped on the right side and under the stock, the wood is stamped with a clear "F". That's for all the markings I've found.
Subsidiary question is : how to determine the caliber of that carbine ? 56-50, 56-52, 56-56 ?
First of all, it seems unfired. My guess is that carbine is one of the 44,000 Spencers shipped to France in 1870 and which mostly stayed in army arsenals for lack of ammunitions.
The breechblock, firing pin and the inside of the barrel are factory new. The serial number is 32135, the marking on the top of the receiver is "spencer repeating rifle co boston mass" the third line is mostly erased and you just guess "pat march...". On the right side of the receiver it is stamped "137". on the left side of the barrel, near the receiver there's a very small "p". There's a bigger "p" followed by "s2" on top of the barrel under the front-stock ring. The loading lever has a "m" stamped on the right side and under the stock, the wood is stamped with a clear "F". That's for all the markings I've found.
Subsidiary question is : how to determine the caliber of that carbine ? 56-50, 56-52, 56-56 ?