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Special High Grade Engraved Robinson Model 1872 Repeating Rifle by Adirondack Firearms Co.
Guns International #: 103183894 Seller's Inventory #: 50790
Category: Rifles - American Bolt Action - Antique Rifles - Cartridge
Seller's Information
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Seller: Joe Salter com
Company: Down East Antiques - Joe Salter
Member Since: 9/10/10
First Name: Garrick-March-Jim-Joe
Last Name: Salter
State: New Hampshire
Zip: 03031
Country: United States
Phone: (603) 732-4000
Fax: (603) 732-4200
Platinum Seller
Number of Active Listings: 1366
Total Number of Listings: 23882
Seller: FFL Dealer
Return Policy: 3 day inspection and return policy on used guns.
FREE SHIPPING FOR ORDERS OVER $500! We also have a 30 day Inspection Period and NOT a 3 day Inspection.
Payment Types Accepted: We take all major credit cards with NO CREDIT CARD FEES! Also Check or Money order.
About Us: Joe Salter has been in the Antique and Collector Weapons business for 60 years as both a collector and dealer. Our company is based in Southern New Hampshire and we have had an internet based store front for the past 20 years. We are federally licensed and deal in all types of firearms and related material. We offer free Shipping for orders over $500.
Description:
Serial #180, .44 RF, 25" part octagon barrel with a good bore that has dark pitting within the grooves. This is a very handsome rifle, built on Orville Robinson’s April 23, 1872, patent, and utilizes a manually-operated toggle lock that rides in a mortise along the top of the receiver operated via a knurled handle on the right side. The frame has retained 70-75% of the original nickel plated finish, with flaking to the underlying brass along the edges and projections, most noticeably on the right side of the frame. The frame has lovely floral scrollwork vignettes, and there are a series of small impact marks on the forward portion of the left side of the frame surrounding the end of the barrel pin. The bolt, rear link, and flip-open loading gate have a mottled gray and plum-brown patina. The unusual part octagon barrel retains traces of the original blue finish on protected areas, while the balance has an overall plum-brown patina that exhibits gray fading at the muzzle and along the edges of the barrel facets. The magazine tube retains more of the original blue, with some mild fading and plum-brown on the balance. The barrel is equipped with a period front sight mated to a V-notch rear sight, screw-adjustable for elevation, as well as a vacant socket on the top tang for a no longer present aperture rear sight. The walnut buttstock has some very minor handling marks in the otherwise excellent original varnish, and there is a sliver of wood missing from the left side of the top tang at the wrist. This is a very nice example of a high grade engraved Robinson rifle, with a very unusual part octagon barrel, and would make a wonderful addition to any collection. Antique; Orville Moses Robinson was an upstate New York gunsmith and inventor who received three US patents for breech-loading and repeating firearms. In 1870 Robinson, in partnership with A.S. Babbitt and two others, formed the Adirondack Firearms Co. to manufacture rifles based on his patents at their manufactory in Plattsburgh, NY. The firm is known to have employed Daniel Wilkinson (possibly J.D. Wilkinson, another upstate New York gunmaker and inventor) and Robinson’s son, William (who would’ve been about 10 years old at the formation of the company!) Adirondack Firearms Co. operated until 1874, ultimately producing what is thought to be slightly fewer than 1,000 rifles of all types, when it was purchased by the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. and permanently shut down. The Adirondack Firearms Co., and Robinson’s repeating rifle designs, represent an interesting footnote in the then rapidly advancing field of repeating breechloading long guns.;
Price: $7,995.00
Antique: Yes