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I picked this up a few days ago for what I thought a reasonable price. I started down the path thinking 1855 Springfield replica but it has no Maynard system. I dug a bit further and I'm thinking it's a replica of the C.S. Richmond except it has a patch box. There is no maker stamped on the gun, maybe defarbed? It appears the front sight has been professional replaced with a higher blade. The bore looks really good. I haven't shot her yet but the fellow I bought it from claims it shoot a bit to the right.

What do you think? Do I have it identified correctly?

Thanks
 

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I picked this up a few days ago for what I thought a reasonable price. I started down the path thinking 1855 Springfield replica but it has no Maynard system. I dug a bit further and I'm thinking it's a replica of the C.S. Richmond except it has a patch box. There is no maker stamped on the gun, maybe defarbed? It appears the front sight has been professional replaced with a higher blade. The bore looks really good. I haven't shot her yet but the fellow I bought it from claims it shoot a bit to the right.

What do you think? Do I have it identified correctly?

Thanks
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Kind of an odd duck; will be interesting to see what the peanut gallery says...
 
Unless you find an original Richmond Razeed in this configuration, I think you can call it a dream gun, or whatever you want. Probably made for someone in the NSSA with the taller front site. Looks nicely done.
 
I’m not all that knowledgable, but with the 1860 barrel date isn’t it more likely to represent something cobbled together with various parts including the Richmond lock? I agree with @Conquerordie that you can let it be whatever you want. I think it’s cool and you should shoot that thing and enjoy it!
 
I can't say for sure but it looks like the patchbox is too short for a 55 rifle. A 55 rifle would have a 33" barrel of fairly heavy wall thickness and the entire US production came from Harpers Ferry. The 1860 date would be questionable for a CSA arm as Jackson didn't capture Harpers Ferry till the fall of 62 and only after then were the parts and machinery sent south. I suppose one could argue that it was a captured NOS barrel.
 
Could be somebody's try at a copy of an early CSA Fayetteville rifle. Some of the earliest Fayetteville type I were supposedly built using up surplus 1855 stocks early in the War when the rifle building equipmentfrom Harper's Ferry was moved to NC. IIRC the rifle-musket tools and stores of parts was sent to Richmond and the "two-bander" rifle parts went to NC. I wonder if the builder of this particular gun used a mixe of Richmond, 1855, Zouave, and Mississippi repro parts to create this one?

If you happen to have got this off Hibid, I was bidding against you for a bit, lol. I was watching a rifle identical to this one from an auction in Maryland, I believe it was. Congrats on the find!
 

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