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Picture from Gettemans

Probably some info here if you can sort thru the chaff:

http://www.doublegunshop.com/forums/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=387202&page=1

Kind Regards/Cheers,

Raimey
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That "Pre-Breech" notation on the crossbolt Wedge/Key is a bit confusing. With the metal portion of the forend iron showing this certainly looks like a breech loader to me. Certainly this was a common method of securing the barrels & stock together on muzzleloaders but it also carried over to the forend of early breech loaders. My Ca 1863 W & C Scott bar in wood pinfire has the forend attached this way.

Miller, up until the mid 1870s, most of my breechloaders had the pin common to muzzleloaders. I think the picture meant that the origins of the pin were not in a patent, like the others, and were from pre breechloading times.

Daryl;
That makes sense as all the others have patent dates listed.