Serial Number Help Sharps Carbine

[CCHAND4]

Looking for help on Serial Number - 61386. 1859 Cartridge Conversion. TIA.

 

[UCVRelics]

Looking for help on Serial Number - 61386. 1859 Cartridge Conversion. TIA.

If you could post some photos to include the marker marks and serial # we can take a look and see just what you have and check the SRS data base. Looking forward to seeing your Sharps.

 

[JOHN42768]

Welcome, enjoy

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

there is a serial on the bottom of the barrel that should match the visible on the tang of the receiver

 

[scooter748driver]

Welcome from the Fort Sumter and the Fredericksburg forums. Yes, please post pics as requested as lots of info to help you can be determined from the pics.

 

[CCHAND4]

Hope these help…sorry the one is blurred.

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

I don't think you'll find this serial on the SRS listing.
The second number I mentioned on the barrel, you have to take off the wood to find it.
And since this is not a serial number match, it doesn't matter so much whether the barrel serial matches the frame serial. When these were rebuilt from percussion to cartridge, the barrels were taken off the frame, sometimes they got put back together, but not always.

 

[CCHAND4]

I don't think you'll find this serial on the SRS listing.
The second number I mentioned on the barrel, you have to take off the wood to find it.
And since this is not a serial number match, it doesn't matter so much whether the barrel serial matches the frame serial. When these were rebuilt from percussion to cartridge, the barrels were taken off the frame, sometimes they got put back together, but not always.

Here's what's on the barrel. That's a 32 in the second picture.

 

[Jeff in Ohio]

The serial would be the entire five digits, and I think I see the traces of it to the right in that last photo - these parts were polished and refinshed (blued or case hardened) and so markings got weak.

 

[CCHAND4]

The serial would be the entire five digits, and I think I see the traces of it to the right in that last photo - these parts were polished and refinshed (blued or case hardened) and so markings got weak.

Cannot make out what those digits are on the barrel, you describe. There is an EAW on the flat of the barrel on its left side. Unfortunately this was stored in the barn at my Greatgrandfather's home for years and barely survived the fire which destroyed most of his "stuff". I know when he was ranching in New Mexico 1898-1910 is when he acquired this carbine. He had a contract supplying horses and mules to the US Gov't and I have often Wondered if he somehow finagled it away from some trooper or something…sounds good anyway. He's on the left in the picture.

 

[scooter748driver]

Great picture!