Guns International #: 103183895
Seller's Inventory #: 50795

Category - Antique Rifles - Cartridge - Rimfire American Rifles

Category
Antique Rifles - Cartridge
Rimfire American Rifles

Restored Robinson Model 1872 Repeating Rifle by Adirondack Firearms Co.

Description:
Serial #123, .44 RF, 24" octagon barrel with a very good bore that has some minor freckling and mild 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 brass frame has a pleasant yellow-ochre patina with sharp edges and some very small impact marks on the forward portion of the left side of the frame surrounding the end of the barrel pin. The barrel, magazine tube, bolt, rear toggle, loading gate and frame covers have most of a nicely reapplied rust blue finish remaining, with some mild fading along the edges and projections. A later sporting bead front sight, and fixed rear sight are installed, and the original screw-adjustable rear sight dovetail and relief cut have been filled. The nicely figured walnut buttstock is in excellent shape, with some old minor handling marks and small blemishes scattered about the otherwise excellent varnish. This is a really nice example of a rare American repeating rifle, restored to excellent condition overall. 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. ;

Antique: Yes

Price: $5,495.00