I know what you mean, his old place is just up the road a few miles (OK a few dozen) from me, I loved to go up there just after he finished cataloging a new shipment.

Here's a pic of the sidelever Martini after partial restoration, for comparison of the characteristic Field's rather dainty wrist shape.

The excrescence you see on the left side of the frame is a spring for retention of the breechblock in the closed position; it also adds a certain snap to the extraction.
Regards, Joe


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