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None of the past or present Civil Guard Model rifles in the Remington museum is a “catalog correct” representation. The Schuyler Hartley & Graham shipment records of 1868 to 1900 list a mere 1,130 of the .43 Spanish-caliber Civil Guard Models as having been shipped to Argentina. No others of this variation are noted on this listing and recorded as shipped to any other nation in the Spanish-speaking Americas, nor even to Spain itself.

In the past 45 years of military rolling block research and collecting, the author has examined a total of four genuine catalog-correct Civil Guard Model Remington rolling block rifles, and has owned one example which was British proof-marked. It was discovered in British Honduras in the mid-1990s. All rifles of this genre observed to date have displayed evidence of having performed hard but honest service and all appeared to be in very good condition as a whole.

During the course of completion of my latest book, it was in early in 2009 that a most inscrutable Remington-manufactured military rolling block rifle was obtained. This particular arm may be described as a special order variation of Remington’s Civil Guard Model, appearing to be in a singular category all to itself. A genuine pre-1898 antique, it was discovered in Cuba, of all places, and purchased from a Russian acquaintance who is a collector and purveyor of international military antiques. Since Russian citizens may travel to Cuba and export a variety of commodities, it is a rare stroke of fortune to have friends with such privileges!