Serial number information request

[jologist]

New to the forum and have a question.  Will you please provide any information that might be available for a M1865 Spencer carbine SN 18146?  Thanks for the help.

[Two Flints]

jologist,

I may be able to help you, but you need to join SSS.  Let me know if you are going to join.  You can Email me at fsgrand2@fairpoint.net or register on the first page in the first thread.

Some time ago I acquired the four volume set of the Springfield Research Service (SRS) Serial Numbers of U.S. Martial Arms. I purchased the set so I could help SSS members identify which unit their original Spencer Carbine or rifle was issued or assigned to during, and perhaps, after the Civil War.

Unfortunately, not all the Spencer serial numbers are listed in the four volume set I own. And, there are gaps between indicated serial numbers. This paragraph is a DISCLAIMER of sorts. As a courtesy to SSS members, I am happy to reveal to you the information I have regarding the serial number of your Spencer carbine or rifle. But, please remember, I am just regurgitating what I read in my SRS volumes with some "unscientific conjecture" on my part . What I do is the following: I take your Spencer serial number and try to place it in between the two closest serial numbers to yours listed in my SRS volume. In most cases, if the serial numbers for the Spencer before and after your own serial number were issued to the same unit, I assume your Spencer went to the same unit. Or, if your Spencer serial number is very, very close to another Spencer serial number, I assume your Spencer went to the same unit. I call this the "Two Flints guesstimation"  .  I'm guessing and estimating at the same time on what I believe to be correct information based upon the information I find in my four volume set of SRS.  And that is the best that I can do for you.

Having written all the above, my records show that your Spencer carbine serial # 18146 may have originally been issued to a member of Co. K, 11th Michigan Volunteer Cavalry on or about August 17, 1864

Two Flints

[jologist]

Thanks Two Flints,

As per your e-mail, I will try and post some pictures of my Spencer.  If not savvy enough to post to the forum will try to e-mail you directly.  It does have the Stabler cutoff and the SN in located on the upper receiver behind the breech block.  I am, unfortunately, located in Kalifornia.

Thanks again,
jologist

[jologist]

Below are some pictures of my Spencer.  I hope they come through.