How about this Springfield?

[Johnny676767]

Here's another possibility that I'm looking at for purchase. This one is from a member here. What do you think? $1,200.

 

[mofederal]

A pretty nice looking 63 Springfield. Thanks for the photos.

 

[johan_steele]

Nice if the price is right. I'm of the opinion that the M1864 Springfield is the finest military muzzle loader of the age.

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

There's a good comparison to be made by comparing this Springfield and that Enfield you pictured in another posting. See how the wood on this is rounded from sanding - you can see this clearly on the edges of the lockplate flat and the flat opposite the lockplate, and also where the wood surrounding the buttplate tang is rounded down where it meets the metal.
Compare the razor sharp wood edges on that enfield, that open grain, and the old slightly wrinkled look of that untouched varnish. The Springfield has some modern coat of shellac or similar light finish on it, no original finish there.
I think there might be some finish under that brown on the Enfield - I would not try to clean it to see, but it looks like some blue gone plum on that one.
Both are solid and honest specimens - but they do offer a good pair to study and compare

 

[Miker91]

How long ago would you guess the work was done on th Springfield ? I have had it for 25 years and it wasn't done by me.

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

How long ago would you guess the work was done on th Springfield ? I have had it for 25 years and it wasn't done by me.

Like most items, no way of knowing if it was sanded and varnished by 1880 by the veteran or in 1900 by his child, or 1961 by an owner who wanted to spruce it up for the Centennial of the War or by a collector in 1985.
I am certain that some current owner of one of the cavalry sabers my cousin and I nicked when playing in great grandfather's attic about 1960 believes those nicks were made by desperate cavalry fighting by troopers, when it was really two small boys playing a hundred years later - who can tell when that wear was put onto those swords?????

 

[Miker91]

Thanks Jeff.