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Sharps Rifle Co. 1875 I/U Stock Certificate Rarity

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Sharps Rifle Co. 1875 I/U Stock Certificate Rarity
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This item SOLD at 2021 Nov 23 @ 16:24UTC-5 : EST/CDT
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Bridgeport, Connecticut..... December 11, 1875. 5 Shares I/U Capital Stock Certificate, S/N 35 Black printing with black ornate border, Civil War soldier with flag at top right and Men hunting birds with dog holding bird in its mouth at bottom left. VF condition, Lawrence & Allen. Sharps rifles are a series of large-bore, single-shot, falling-block, breech-loading rifles, beginning with a design by Christian Sharps in 1848, and ceasing production in 1881. They were renowned for long-range accuracy. By 1874 the rifle was available in a variety of calibers, and it was one of the few designs successfully to be adapted to metallic cartridge use. The Sharps rifles became icons of the American Old West due to their appearances in many Western-genre films and books. The Sharps Rifle was produced by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company in Hartford, Connecticut. It was used in the Civil War by multiple Union units, most famously by the U.S. Army marksmen known popularly as "Berdan's Sharpshooters" in honor of their leader Hiram Berdan. The Sharps made a superior sniper weapon of greater accuracy than the more commonly issued muzzle-loading rifled muskets.