Original Civil War Period Box of Sharps Carbine and Rifle Cartridges Containing Three Remaining Sharps Linen Cartridges

Original Civil War Period Box of Sharps Carbine and Rifle Cartridges Containing Three Remaining Sharps Linen Cartridges – This pasteboard, Civil War period box originally contained ten Sharps linen cartridges; when we obtained the open box, it still held three, .52 cal. cartridges, which remain in excellent condition. This is a two-piece box, with both top and bottom covered with beige paper. The original printed label on the top half of the box reads as follows:

“10 CARTRIDGES

For Sharps’ Improved

52/100 CALIBER.

A Superior Quality of Powder is used, made by

A.G. Fay, Potter & Tolman, Boston, Mass.

ADDRESS,

SHARPS RIFLE MANUF’G CO.

HARTFORD, CONN.”

These original boxes are rarely found today; this example and the remaining three cartridges are in overall very good condition.