If there ever was a civilian made target rifle that belonged in the hands of a United States sharpshooter during the Civil War, this appears to be it.  While made in the same style as a bench rest target rifle, that is certainly not what this is.  It only weighs 13 pounds and you will note the provision for ramrod underneath the barrel.  It is beautifully made for off hand shooting and mobility.  This gun is straight out of an attic and has not been cleaned.  It has a light, thin rust with dust in the corners.  I have not persuaded myself to clean the outside, however I did do a superficial cleaning of the bore and it is brilliant.  Whoever put this gun away, cleaned the bore meticulously.  It has a five groove rifling with a fairly quick twist, that is literally polished.  The outside of the gun has no breaks, cracks, disfiguring pitting, etc.  It will clean very nicely.  But it is so sexy the way it is, I don't think I'm going to clean it.   The scope is optical, not a sighting tube, and is 34 inches in length.  The optics are still good, a little dirty, but with strong magnification.  The lenses are free of distortion, cracks, scratches, etc.  The outside of the scope tube is marked Cortland, NY.  (There is a town south of Utica, NY named Cortland today.)  The gun has a Remington barrel, which is so marked on the left barrel flat at the rear and measures 30 inches in length.  The overall length of the gun is approximately 46 1/2 inches.  As you can see, there is a takedown mechanism on the bottom of the frame, which allows the disassembly of the barrel from the frame.  The breech has a long tang running down the wrist and the trigger guard, patchbox and butt plate are strong, solid iron mountings.  There is a German silver inlay on the left side of the butt stock.  The stock, as you can tell from the photo, has a beautiful, dense flame grain.  Other than the Remington mark on the barrel and the Cortland mark on the scope, this gun is unmarked, but I have a feeling that it comes from the Utica, NY area.  You will find photographs of guns very similar to this on page 122 of Roy Marcot's book of the Civil War Sharpshooters and Hiram Berdan.   Most of the United States sharpshooters were armed with this type gun at the beginning of the Civil War.  While Berdan's unit was eventually issued Sharps Rifles, other units retained these scoped guns and even Berdan's units did not dispense with them entirely.  There is today, a Winslow Homer sketch of a Yankee sharpshooter sitting in a pine tree using one of these guns.  This gun does have some of the characteristics of guns made by Morgan James of Utica, NY, but perhaps someone with more experience with these, can place it specifically by its stylistic characteristics.   SOLD!!