Is this a hybrid?
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 4:30 pm
Good evening (well, it's evening over here) to all.
I am a New Member with an original New Model 1863, and hope that on this forum I might be able to exchange information on shooting it with other New Model shooters. But more on that another time. (Moderators, if this is way off topic, please move it accordingly.)
But what is troubling me at the moment is the following:
https://www.egun.de/market/item.php?id=7688048
At first glance the rifle looks OK. But the more I study it, the more uncertain I become. I have a signed copy of Frank Sellers' book, and have read it from cover to cover. But I cannot find a single instance of the barrel being marked with (2nd line) MANUFAG. CO.
It is always MANUFG. CO.
This observation provoked further study. The block has the flame/gas cone in the center and the sealing plate style as per later Conant development for the New Model. Totally wrong for anything before an 1859 New Model. Am I right?
But the lock looks OK for 1852/53, with two separate springs.
So I am beginning to think that this is an original 1852/3 "Back end" with a New Model Block and a .38 cal. barrel from wherever fitted to the front to imitate the extremely rare 1852 rifle in 90-bore.
Comments would be extremely welcome - if only to stop me from buying a fake!
And another, maybe simpler question: as one can see, the flame cone has a break in its rim. Can this cone be unscrewed from the block assembly? And of so - how do you manage it without marring the various parts?
I am a New Member with an original New Model 1863, and hope that on this forum I might be able to exchange information on shooting it with other New Model shooters. But more on that another time. (Moderators, if this is way off topic, please move it accordingly.)
But what is troubling me at the moment is the following:
https://www.egun.de/market/item.php?id=7688048
At first glance the rifle looks OK. But the more I study it, the more uncertain I become. I have a signed copy of Frank Sellers' book, and have read it from cover to cover. But I cannot find a single instance of the barrel being marked with (2nd line) MANUFAG. CO.
It is always MANUFG. CO.
This observation provoked further study. The block has the flame/gas cone in the center and the sealing plate style as per later Conant development for the New Model. Totally wrong for anything before an 1859 New Model. Am I right?
But the lock looks OK for 1852/53, with two separate springs.
So I am beginning to think that this is an original 1852/3 "Back end" with a New Model Block and a .38 cal. barrel from wherever fitted to the front to imitate the extremely rare 1852 rifle in 90-bore.
Comments would be extremely welcome - if only to stop me from buying a fake!
And another, maybe simpler question: as one can see, the flame cone has a break in its rim. Can this cone be unscrewed from the block assembly? And of so - how do you manage it without marring the various parts?