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bobw Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2263 Joined: Mar 19^th, 2013	Re: Sharps 1875 with 1869 patent date Reply #15 - Nov 9^th, 2026 at 11:35am	Print Post
	Old-Win wrote on Nov 8^th, 2026 at 11:25pm: Bob W. I pulled out my Seller's book and he covers that particular model 75 on pages 245 to 247. He claims that there is only one surviving model of that rifle and it doesn't appear like the one showing in your picture is the same one shown in Seller's book. Could there be more than one surviving model? There are three shown in the Marcot book. Two long ranges and a mid-range, all marked that way. If I remember correctly at least two were shown at the 1876 Centennial Fair. Back when I started this hunt, I was contacted and told there were a couple collectors that did not want there rifles in the Marcot book. So there could actually be a couple more out there. According Tom Rowe, his is the only one, of the known three, that works like they were originally designed. The rifles were designed to cock on closing. The little thumb lever behind the hammer turns the cocking feature on and off. Bob


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bobw Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2263 Joined: Mar 19^th, 2013	Re: Sharps 1875 with 1869 patent date Reply #16 - Nov 9^th, 2026 at 11:43am	Print Post
	Old-Win wrote on Nov 8^th, 2026 at 11:25pm: Bob W. I pulled out my Seller's book and he covers that particular model 75 on pages 245 to 247. He claims that there is only one surviving model of that rifle and it doesn't appear like the one showing in your picture is the same one shown in Seller's book. Could there be more than one surviving model? Maybe Tom Rowe will come into this conversation and straighten me out if I’m incorrect on this, but I believe he found his in an obscure auction in California and ended up with it. He also spent a considerable amount having it restored, but it looks good, just as a well cared for original finish would look. Bob


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bobw Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 2263 Joined: Mar 19^th, 2013	Re: Sharps 1875 with 1869 patent date Reply #17 - Nov 9^th, 2026 at 12:06pm	Print Post
	They are beautifully designed rifles, great lines! Bob Picture of Tom Rowe’s display (Tom’s picture) and another that came up from somewhere that I had saved. Bob


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Old-Win Frequent Elocutionist Offline Posts: 1864 Location: Minnesota Joined: Nov 24^th, 2005	Re: Sharps 1875 with 1869 patent date Reply #18 - Nov 9^th, 2026 at 5:10pm	Print Post
	Bob, that makes more sense. I saw that rifle come up on that auction out in California and almost bid on it but then according to the Seller's book it had to be a copy. He states that only two were made and one was showing at the 1876 Expo and the other one was on a military rifle. John Bodine supposedly bought the original rifle and then returned it to Sharps about a year later and had them rebarrel it for him. Seller's has a letter quoted from the Sharps rifle company. "We have not yet made the rifle you describe and which you probably saw at the Centennial and it is very doubtful that we will make it as it's advantages over the model now in use are very small and it would not pay to make the change".


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