Both are stamped on top flats of the heavy barrels “Sharps Rifle Manufg. Co. Hartford, Conn.,” the .50-95 in two lines and the .50-170-700 in one straight line.

The Sharps rifle is one of the most celebrated in the history and folklore of America in the 1800s. Its unique design, a movable breech block that slid down for loading, ...

First completed volume of the four volume set. "This publication describes early Sharps cartridge rifle and carbine development, beginning with the Models of 1867 and 1968. The development of the ...

Check out Rafael Eledge's appraisal of a 1862 Sharps & Hankins rifle serial no. 1, in Vintage Dallas, Hour 1. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on ...

Christian Sharps left the enterprise in the 1850s and the company moved to Connecticut, but the Sharps Rifle Company carried on using his name to market rifles for the next several decades.

Check out Rafael Eledge's appraisal of an 1856 Sharps Model 1855 Naval rifle in Vintage Atlantic City, Hour 2. Antiques Roadshow is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available ...

This Sharps rifle bears no maker’s mark; it was made especially for John Brown. Brown carried this weapon on his Kansas campaign in 1856 and later presented it to Charles Blair of Collinsville, ...

BIG TIMBER, Mont. - No detail, no matter how small, is overlooked in the creation of the replica Sharps rifles crafted by the Shiloh Sharps Rifle Manufacturing Co. here. They even make their own ...

Sharps Rifle Company says AR barrels chambered in .25-45 Sharps, as well as 87-grain Speer Hot-Cor loads, will be available in June 2014.

This article was originally published with the title “ Sharps' Breech-Loading Patent Rifle--Fig 1 ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 5 No. 25 (March 1850), p. 193 doi:10.1038 ...

Glenrock-based firearms manufacturer Sharps Rifle Company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after years of declining revenue and growing debts, according to documents filed Dec. 31. According to ...