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May 23, 2009
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I’m not certain but it sure looks to me that this fellow used a first model 73 lower tang for his patent for a “Hair Trigger”.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US181855A/en?oq=US181%2c855
What do you fellows think?
If it not an 73 tang, What rifle does it belong to?
Sincerely,
Maverick
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May 2, 2009
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Maverick,
Can’t see any detail in the picture, its just a thumbnail size but its looks like a 73 tang.
Bob
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With the patent date of September 1876, it makes sense to me that it’s a first model, 1873 lower tang.
Interesting.
It think it helps to show the interest in firearms back then, and the patent holder was listed in Red Bluff, California, in 1876. Interesting to me as most of the Firearms activity, was still back east, with the exceptions of course of J.M.B. in Ogden, Utah, and brother Frank and George Freund, headed West after the Civil War, as many did, along with a few others also.
Anthony
May 23, 2009
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1873man said
Maverick,
Can’t see any detail in the picture, its just a thumbnail size but its looks like a 73 tang.
Bob
Well Bob it is the only picture I’ve got and its from the museum’s website. If you look at the patent drawing on the link below it, to me it looks like a 73 lower tang. It would have to be an early first model 73 to have been patented in September 1876.
It would be nice to know if the tang has a serial number on it.
Sincerely,
Maverick
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