Using brass or iron furniture tacks was one of American Indians’ favorite ways of dressing up their firearms.
If this M-1860 Spencer carbine could talk! Its serial number 57xxx reveals that it is from the last Spencer contract to be delivered to the Army of the Potomac just weeks before the end of the Civil War. It was most likely issued to General Phil Sheridan’s cavalry. On the upper left of the stock is a hardly visible
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