Re: Please Help ID this thing it's driving me insane!!! Archived Message
Posted by John on July 24, 2008, 1:37 pm, in reply to "Re: Please Help ID this thing it's driving me insane!!!"
It does have line engraving, around the edges of the locks. There's a sort of figure eight looking pattern on the release lever and where the lug meets the receiver there's some more light line engraving as well as on the trigger guard. Nothing fancy though. There's something sort of resembling a vine or something that comes up around the barrel lug pin. The hinge pin itself has an 8 pointed star engraved into it.
Thanks for alerting me to the engineering drawings, I measured the breech balls and though they look somewhat like the Fulton ones, they're 3/4's of an inch in profile which is what the Syracuse made guns are(according to the drawings).
It is very curious to me that the barrel lug is rounded in the front like a post 1898 Fulton made gun.
Very sorry about the quality of the pictures, on my computer I didn't have to scroll back and forth to read so sorry about that as well. Not to patronize or offend, but you might be attributed to the resolution setting on your machine, or the tool bars.
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