Very, very nice examples, JB and Daryl. The variety is almost infinite. Interesting that almost all hammers submitted came from the 1870’s and earlier. Of course that was the golden era for hammer breechloaders—and very short lived at that.

Daryl, you always manage to pull out some of the darndest odd variants. Never cease to amaze me!


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