Confederate SHG3 p1853 Enfield Rifle Musket

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P1853 Enfield with very rare Confederate viewer stamp, TH and SHG3, with BSAT stamp on the buttstock. Bore rates about a 7 with rifling still present. A solid example, minus rear sight, but would be difficult to find another TH example to collectors of Confederate Enfield imports.

I can provide additional pictures for any potential buyers.

$1650 shipped CONUS

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Just to clarify for those that don't have The English Connection, here are Tim Prince's thoughts on SHG# Enfield rifles.


"The mark has five variants, with the number after the "G" being a 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5. Sinclair, Hamilton & Company used five "furnishers" for their 2nd Confederate contract for 30,000 P-1853 Enfield rifle muskets. These are the "JS/Anchor" guns with engraved numbers on their butt plate tangs. The furnishers often marked the comb of the butt with a single initial to indicate that they delivered the gun. The marks were B for EP Bond, F for Parker, Field & Son, K for James Kerr, (these 3 being London makers), S for Scott & Son and J for CW James (these last 2 being Birmingham makers). Just because their furnisher's mark appeared on the stock, did not mean that they built the gun, only that they delivered to Sinclair, Hamilton & Company under this contract. It is rational to presume that the number following the "G" in the SH/G# mark refers to the furnisher for the contract.

The supposition in the last line of the above argument is further bolstered by the fact that an SH/G# marked gun is known to exist that also bears a furnisher?s marking letter. This is clear evidence of a gun with a known Confederate mark also bearing the SH/G# mark.

The final "smoking gun" recently appeared on the market. it is an "SHG1" marked P-1853 that also bears the Sinclair-Hamilton SH / C in an oval mark that is occasionally encountered on the breech of P-1853's. In this case the mark is at the end of the Birmingham proofs at the breech. This appears to be iron clad evidence that the SHG# mark is in fact another Sinclair, Hamilton, & Company marking."