Original Springfield M-1863 Rifled Musket Converted to Miller Patent Breechloader German Badges & Signs offers original inert Display Models

offers original inert Display Models constructed from Original Parts

and 4 piece demilled receiver

He was the left waist gunner and flew as a member of the B-24 Liberator Duration Baby crew captained by Ross Baker

who had become the superintendent of the Sharps Rifle Company

Original Springfield M-1863 Rifled Musket Converted to Miller Patent Breechloader German Badges & Signs offers original inert Display ModelsOriginal Item: One Only. This is really a Peach! This rifle started out as a Civil War Springfield Rifle Musket, dated 1863, made by PARKERS ' SNOW & CO. MERIDEN, CONN, as listed on the lock plate. There is also the "Spread Eagle" over U. S. marking, indicating military production. Around 700,000 were produced from 1863 until the end of the Civil War in 1865. With the advent of breech loading cartridge firearms, the government was looking for cost