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Hartford sewing machine company building that housed Sharps Rifle Co. Christian Sharps (1810–1874), patented his rifle in 1848. The first contract for 5,000 rifles was in 1850 and manufacturing started in 1851. The Model 1851 "box-lock" was developed by Christian Sharps, Rollin White, and Richard Lawrence at Robbins & Lawrence of Windsor ...
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Caprock Chronicles: The Sharps fifle, buffalo hunting, and the South Plains
The Model 1851 was replaced in production by the Model 1853. Christian Sharps left the company in 1855 to form his own manufacturing company called "C. Sharps & Company" in Philadelphia; Lawrence continued as the chief armorer until 1872 and developed the various Sharps models and their improvements that made the rifle famous. [7]
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Schmidt–Rubin rifles (Switzerland – rifle – 1889/1891) Schwarzlose Model 1898 (German Empire – semi-automatic pistol – 1898) Sharps Rifle (US – rifle – 1848) Sharps & Hankins Model 1862 carbine (US – rifle – 1862) Schwarzlose Model 1898 (Austria-Hungary – pistol – 1898) Schönberger-Laumann (Austria-Hungary – pistol ...
The Sharps & Hankins Model 1862 carbine was a sliding breech action carbine made by Sharps & Hankins Co. in the 1860s and designed by Christian Sharps. The gun is a rimfire .52 caliber and was made in Philadelphia in a quantity of about 8,000. [1] This firearm, patented on July 9, 1861 by Christian Sharps.
The Sharps-Borchardt Model 1878 is a single-shot hammerless falling-block action rifle designed by Hugo Borchardt and made by the Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Company. It closely resembles older Sharps Rifles but has a firing mechanism that uses a hammerless striker rather than a hammer and firing pin like the old Sharps Rifle.