.52RF. 24" barrel. SN: 11111. Leather covered barrel, tinned receiver, tinned brass furniture, walnut stock. Single shot breechloading metallic cartridge carbine with elevation adjustable rear sight, Barleycorn front sight, sliding safety and sling swivel in toe of stock. Standard Sharps & Hankins markings on receiver.

Roughly 8,000 of these carbines were produced circa 1862-1865 with slightly less than 7,000 acquired for use by the US Navy during the Civil War.

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About Fine. Bore fine and mostly bright with crisp rifling. Metal with much of the tinning intact, leather on barrel very fine and mostly intact with only some minor loss and flaking. Markings clear and crisp. Rear sight blade is bent. Mechanically functional action. Wood fairly crisp with some scattered bumps, dings and mars and a grain crack on the obverse butt extending from the wrist towards the butt along the lower part of the comb. A very nice example.