I contacted Dan May at the Miller Single Trigger Company to see if they had any records of Miller triggers on Model 90's or of having done work for Ole Horsrud, inventor of the Model 90. The following is a summary of his comments:
"The Miller brothers did install some unmarked triggers for Ithaca. This was a bone of contention between the Millers and Ithaca and led to some fiery disputes. Ithaca didn't want to mark the triggers because they charged five dollars more for the installation than Miller did. This is one of the many factors that caused them to part ways.
This is the only instance that I am aware of where Miller did not stamp their work. Elmer and Howard were very careful to protect their patented product and really hated to not stamp a trigger that they installed.
I checked the records and found nothing related to the Marlin Company. I checked all of the over/under patents and nothing jumped out for certain. I also went through all of the patterns, jigs and miscellaneous parts. I didn't find anything clearly marked Marlin or Model 90. The Millers were very creative and did do a lot of one-off work and would adapt their systems to most anything.
As far as the spring, the one you describe does not sound like a spring that would have been incorporated in a Miller installation.
To be completely honest, the records that we inherited are sparse. I believe the original Miller corporate books were slim and have been lost to the sands of time. We have a little bit of correspondence and drawings, not much else. There is nothing related to Ole Horsrud."
Last edited by BarkeyVA; 06/30/10 06:23 PM.
