The fore stock is in very good condition. Butt plate, tube magazine, sling swivels, nose cap, barrel bands, and band springs all here and show similar wear with uniform pewter-gray color.īarrel is mated to a black walnut two-piece stock. Mechanically good with one very minor exception: the spring for the cartridge guide (the piece that sits atop the breech block and guides the spent case out of the receiver and then guides the new cartridge into the chamber) is loose or broken so there is no tension on the guide. Early serial number “1646” is visible at rear of receiver. On the top of the receiver is the three-line maker’s stamping “SPENCER REPEATING - / RIFLE CO. All gun metal exhibits light use and wear and scattered light pitting. Features rear flip-up sight and front blade site emanating from a socket bayonet lug. Rifle measures 47” overall with a 30” round barrel that features six-groove rifling. 52 caliber rimfire longarm that used the “No. This specimen, serial #1646, was one of the approximately 11,000 produced between 18.
Initial army contracts with the Spencer Company of Boston, Massachusetts called for 10,000 repeating firearms at a cost of $40.00 each. This famous longarm is a Civil War Model 1860 Spencer Repeating rifle in very good original condition.
