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Special Robinson Model 1872 Repeating Rifle by Adirondack Firearms Co. with Heavy Barrel and Full-Length Magazine Tube
Guns International #: 103193253 Seller's Inventory #: 50804
Category: Antique Rifles - Cartridge - Rifles - American Bolt Action
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: 1365
Total Number of Listings: 23998
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 #62, .41 RF, 24" heavy octagon barrel with a fine, bright bore that has some freckling and mild pitting within the grooves near the muzzle. This is a plain, unadorned 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 brass frame has an overall dull yellow-ochre patina, but without the impact marks often found on one or both ends of the barrel pin. The bolt, rear toggle link, and loading gate have an overall mottled gray and plum-brown patina, while the toggle action, though functional, binds when closed and can only be opened via pushing the cartridge lifter up to its fully raised position before operating the bolt handle. The barrel has an overall plum-brown patina with mild silvering at the muzzle and along the edges of the barrel facets. The unusual full-length magazine tube retains about 70-75% of the original blue finish, with the balance freckled to a dark brown color. A period German silver blade front sight and rear semi-buckhorn sight with screw-adjustable elevation are installed. The walnut buttstock is in very good shape, with only minor handling marks and small blemishes scattered about the original varnish, but there is a stable 1" stress crack on the left side of the wrist running back from the frame juncture along the top tang. This is a very nice Adirondack rifle, in an unusual configuration. 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: $5,295.00
Antique: Yes