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Aaleyend Participating Member Offline Posts: 19 Joined: Mar 25^th, 2022	Sharps Borchardt help….Wells?? Apr 9^th, 2022 at 9:55pm	Print Post
	What I know, Sharps Borchardt 1878 chambered in 32-40. Poked around today while cleaning and found some additional marks. Under the rear brass butt plate there was a series of numbers and a name. Numbers matched the forearm, barrel, and stock. So I am assuming they were all done at the same time. The name was WL Wells and then the date 1936. Anyone have any info or ideas? Thanks!


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830singleshot Senior Forum Member Offline Posts: 394 Location: Texas Joined: Feb 11^th, 2007	Re: Sharps Borchardt help….Wells?? Reply #1 - Apr 11^th, 2022 at 5:24pm	Print Post
	Very nice. I suspect the barrel was recycled from a Marlin Ballard#5 pacific based on the tulip and cross drilled hole under the forend. Any other markings on the barrel? Has the barrel been lined? I have never heard of a 32-40 Ballard Pacific, so I don't know if my suppositions have any merit. Very interesting rifle

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terry buffum Full Member Offline Posts: 143 Location: Bend, Oregon Joined: Feb 11^th, 2007	Re: Sharps Borchardt help….Wells?? Reply #2 - Apr 11^th, 2022 at 6:23pm	Print Post
	In the stock wood, the number 525 56 0327 is formatted like a Social Security number, while on the butt plate it is inscribed as just a block of numbers. Perhaps one of those sets of numbers on the butt plate are the maker, the second set the original owner.

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Aaleyend Participating Member Offline Posts: 19 Joined: Mar 25^th, 2022	Re: Sharps Borchardt help….Wells?? Reply #3 - Apr 11^th, 2022 at 7:44pm	Print Post
	830singleshot wrote on Apr 11^th, 2022 at 5:24pm: Very nice. I suspect the barrel was recycled from a Marlin Ballard#5 pacific based on the tulip and cross drilled hole under the forend. Any other markings on the barrel? Has the barrel been lined? I have never heard of a 32-40 Ballard Pacific, so I don't know if my suppositions have any merit. Very interesting rifle The only other mark is the “32-40” top of the barrel and it doesn’t seem to be re-lined by visual inspection….


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Aaleyend Participating Member Offline Posts: 19 Joined: Mar 25^th, 2022	Re: Sharps Borchardt help….Wells?? Reply #4 - Apr 11^th, 2022 at 7:45pm	Print Post
	terry buffum wrote on Apr 11^th, 2022 at 6:23pm: In the stock wood, the number 525 56 0327 is formatted like a Social Security number, while on the butt plate it is inscribed as just a block of numbers. Perhaps one of those sets of numbers on the butt plate are the maker, the second set the original owner. That is an interesting idea….


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MrTipUp Frequent Elocutionist Offline Quality is to a product what character is to a man Posts: 1301 Location: Indiana Joined: Feb 19^th, 2020	Re: Sharps Borchardt help….Wells?? Reply #5 - Apr 11^th, 2022 at 10:22pm	Print Post
	If it is a social security number, on the very likely assumption that the number was assigned before 1972, it originated in New Mexico. Does that ring anyone's bell? Bill Lawrence


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condorsc Full Member Offline NRA Life/Benefactor, ASSRA, SCV Life Posts: 131 Location: Beaufort, S.C. Joined: Nov 13^th, 2021	Re: Sharps Borchardt help….Wells?? Reply #6 - Apr 15^th, 2022 at 5:36pm	Print Post
	A word of caution. I received my SSN in '62, part of a batch my employer got for us. I was living in S.C. but my number indicates Georgia. I don't know if intense research would uncover this sort of thing years later, but the state a number indicates may not be accurate.


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