doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Unusual Norwich hammergun by W H Davenport

I've saw three at Cracker Barrel.

Did you take any pictures?
Casey

Robert, I've owned 4 of those single trigger guns that I can remember. I know you will feel badly that my experience differs from yours, but what Casey said is true. You must get over your fear of others that differ in experience from you. I have also seen them marked The Boston Gun and similar. There are probably three or four other names marked on them that I can't remember. They are advertised in the 1915 or so era.

Casey,

I'll bet you could twist a steel bridge girder into a cork screw.
If you go back and read, you will see that in fact it was Daryl trying to negate what I thought was the only Torkelson single trigger...

Do you understand?

It's Daryl calling what I had said into question...and legitimately so...

But in the future, I plan to seek out the threads that your participating in and twist your words...like you do to everyone else...and we'll all see how you like it when somebody reverses your own nonsense

again...the hunter becomes the hunted

eventually you'll learn to leave me alone

Torkelson Catalog showing the single trigger gun.

My moneys on Robert...

Here's a Torkelson for sale

http://www.doublegun.com/torkelsonnw.html

Oh Yeah...here's a graded (engraved) Torkelson with a single trigger

http://www.jamesdjulia.net/firearm/oct02/firearm_oct02_s1.asp



Well that's news to me...I guess Daryl is correct...I was only able to locate three Torkelson shotguns and including Daryls gun and Christian's gun, that makes 3 single triggers of 5 available guns

I think the fine fellow in Nebraska, Reb, has a single trigger gun, too. There was a connection with Forehand and Torkelson and the stockless gun shown by Robert looks more like a Forehand related gun. New Worchester [sp?] was another name used on Torkelson made guns, but I think that was before the single trigger.

Warren Mass? That's a new clue too...Warren is 25 miles west of Worcester... R T Torkelson was in Hatfield Mass in 1891 when he got this semi-hammer(?) patent
http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=0045...View+first+page

Notice how the rib extinsion in the Forehand catalog (repro year unknown) has a third fastener like the the rib extension in the Warren Mass catalog

The rib extension on the stockless Torkelson looks like the rib extension with a plain dolls head as in the patent drawing below (from 1898)

http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?docid=US00...6RS=PN/0601,820

as does this gun #638, which was made before 1898 because it's stamped with the 91 patent date AND is stamped "Pat Applied For"...By the way this damastwist pre-98 Worcester Connecticut made gun has a Belgian mark and is also marked "JF" barrels...JF presumably for Jean Falla