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Old 10 guage, G H FERRISS , FRANCOTTE
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its a g h ferriss patent date october 10 1871. nickel plated double hammer checkered wood all screws and hammers appear to be hand engraved.

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how do i post pics
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i will e-mail pics to anyone who wants to see it, just e-mail me at reesebitz@gmail.com
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Here's 2-piper's post:

"G H Farris was born in Willow Vale NY in 1820. By 1850 he had moved to Utica NY where he worked as a gunsmith for riflemaker Morgan James. Over the next few years the firm was variously listed as either James or James & Ferriss. By 1855/56 Ferriss had set up his own shop. He was still listed as from Utica when this patent was issued Oct 10, 1871 #119,834. As originally issued it covered both the bolting system & also a cartridge which contained the cone for a percussion cap. It was thus a sort of hybrid, being a breech loader but firing via cone & cap.
I suspect on this one the patent applies only to the bolting."

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Ferriss held 3 patents.

118849 12/09/1871 Device for loading cartridges
119834 10/10/1871 Breech loading gun
149456 07/04/1874 Breech loading fire arm

American Small Arms patents by patent holder
http://damascus-barrels.com/uspatentnom.html

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Most interesting as I did suspect a Belgian origin but not an Auguste Francotte tubeset. Right off, I can't remember to whom the crown over "MG Bte" belongs but we have seen it recently(Francotte retailed in Paris) and maybe Peter or Marc remembers. Is there any name like Charles Daly or the like atop the top rib?




Black powder proof only.



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The rib says fine laminated steel S Sutherland
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