Question on Sharps 1878 Borchardt rifles

[1886nut]

Does anyone know whose initials those are on the cartouches?

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=242269277

Were they put there by Sharps or by the Army? I ask because I also have a military rifle, and it does not have any cartouches on it at all, but I am sure mine has not been sanded.

[frnkeore]

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Frank

[Char-Gar]

I have a Sharps Borchard with original unsanded wood and it does not have those cartouches. It was rebarreled to 38-55 by Denver gunsmith Axel Peterson. It has a tang sight that is unmarked but identical to the one use on Officer Model trapdoor Springfields. The top of the receiver is stamped "J.P. Lower, Denver