.45-70. 28" heavy round barrel. SN: C44881. Blued and color casehardened finish, steel furniture, checkered straight-gripped walnut stock with smooth, semi-Schnabel forend without forend cap. Matching serial numbers under barrel, on tang and in forend. Lock marked in two lines "SHARPS' PAT./OCT 5th 1852", reverse of receiver marked "C. SHAPRS' PAT/SEPT 12th 1848" and left of chamber marked "45 CALIBRE 2 1/10". Receiver is from a carbine and has had the sling bar hole filled. Rifle equipped with double set triggers, folding ladder barrel sight, Vernier tang sight and dovetailed globe front sight. E.C. Meacham of St. Louis, MO performed alterations of Civil War era percussion Sharps firearms to cartridge with modified lock plates and breechblocks and extended hammer noses. Meacham performed this work during the 1880s.