Sharps 1869 metallic cartridge carbine

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4V50 Gary

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I was looking at a Sharps 1859/64 style receiver with the Lawrence Pellet Primer. Did Sharps take surplus 59/64 receivers and rebuild them as metallic cartridge firearms?
 
Thanks Hawg.

I was looking for a source and checked through Sellers' The Sharps Rifle and didn't see anything about conversions. The rifle itself has a buttplate cut out for a patchbox, but there is no patchbox. That also suggested that it was assembled from Civil War parts.
 
A lot of Sharps carbines were converted to center fire a long time after the "late unpleasantness", like in the 1990's when a couple of folks were selling breechblocks with firing pins in them. They may still be on the market.

Jim
 
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