Original U.S. Crimean War Era Rare British Contract Sharps Model 1855 Slant Breech Saddle Ring Cavalry Carbine with Maynard Tape Primer System - Serial 21784 Military Flare Guns The original gold plating is

The original gold plating is almost completely gone

The destroyer Shaw is on fire

of the earliest style

Cummings – Okla

though it definitely does show wear and the effects of the modifications it has undergone

Original U.S. Crimean War Era Rare British Contract Sharps Model 1855 Slant Breech Saddle Ring Cavalry Carbine with Maynard Tape Primer System - Serial 21784 Military Flare Guns The original gold plating isOriginal Item: Only One Available. Here we have a very nice example of a very rare variant of the Sharps Carbine: a Model 1855 Slant Breech Made for possible use by the British during the Crimean War. Only 6,796 of the M 1855 pattern carbines were ever produced between May of 1856 and July of 1857. Of those guns, 6,000 were sold to the British on a military contract, 600 were sold to the US Army, 101 were sold to the US Navy and 95 were sold