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A Gibbs Carbine, William F. Brooks, New York City, 1863
Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description
- Steel
.52 caliber, blued round barrel with fore and rear-sights, color case-hardened breech marked L.H. GIBBS / PAT'D / JAN'Y 8. 1856, and lock-plate marked WM F. BROOKS / MANFR NEW YORK / 1863 with American Eagle motif stamped behind hammer, heel of butt-plate marked U.S., inspector mark adjacent to butt-plate tang, color case-hardened combination trigger-guard lever
22-inch barrel
Lucius H. Gibbs (born 1817)
Approximately 1,052 were produced though the original contract called for 10,000.
22-inch barrel
Lucius H. Gibbs (born 1817)
Approximately 1,052 were produced though the original contract called for 10,000.