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Exact delivery numbers to the Spanish government are unclear at best, with a majority having been sent to Cuba to arm the Ejercito Ultramar, which was Spain’s overseas colonial armed forces. The most common number given by historians has been estimated at 3,000 pieces received by Spanish quartermasters in colonial Cuba. A very small number of these rifles have been retained by the Remington Museum, not to mention those few that had been sold during the late 1940s downsizing of the museum’s inventory.

The November 1, 1920, Remington Museum inventory list compiled by Melbourne Chambers displays a disappointing total of four, with two very unique examples that are now stored in the museum archive room. One is in a very peculiar .42 Berdan caliber, with another specimen in the proper .43 Spanish caliber but made up with a New York State action and a rubber butt plate. The author purchased one of the other Civil Guard Models that were sold off in the 1940s, which was a .58 Berdan-caliber example that had two barrel bands and a Turkish crescent moon and star stamped on the left hammer flat. Identified by a brass tag with inventory number 146, this particular Civil Guard Model has neither the correct .43 Spanish chambering, nor the standard saber bayonet lug.