Trapdoor Rifles

As to any connection with arms sold to France, I know of no such right side numbers applied to model 1866 rifle muskets, thousands of which were sold to France. Also, as Dick points out, there are no such numbers on the Remington model 1870 navy rifles. IMHO, the right side numbers are not connected...

FYI, Vol. II of ANTIQUE FIREARMS 1849-1899 is now available on Amazon. This is the volume from my anthology that has the story of the models 1866 and 1868 rifles which were assembled off-the-books at Springfield in 1871, as well as the overall total ship to France for the Franco-Prussian War. Link h...

Sorry, I don’t.

“ NOTE- I do hope that his piece on U.S. Arms sold for the Franco Prussian War is included in a future volume. IMHO, that is an exceptionally important and insightful article virtually ignored by all other writers.”

This is in Vol. II. It’s a couple of months away.

The first volume is out on Amazon- Antique Firearms 1849-1899, A four Decade Anthology

Working on Vol II.

Reply to “ I did not know that there were cadet models made and also carbine's, unfortunately the article does not state the number of those made.” There is one known carbine, and the cadets were made from cut down conversion muskets and fall within the same SN range. There is no known record of how...

Also, I have a digital copy I can send. Just post your email.

My article on Miller Trapdoors is in Man At Arms, issue of December, 2020.
I consider the number to be a serial number because it is visible. They run from a single digit to over 2200 per my research. They also serve as a parts matching-number, and a factory inventory/tracking number.

Try Google books, search on “Groome guards” and you’ll find several entries.