re: safety of those new fangled fluid steel barrels wink

Ithaca said in 1898 that the barrels were "FOR BLACK AND NITRO POWDERS"



And stamped the lug with "NITRO POWDER PROVED" starting shortly after 1900



More reading here
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LFnSG34k3mBhLEjEgU267wAlIa215MNVQZhIiY62Hx4/edit