It is Ferriss! He also had patent No. 149,456 for a much more conventional toplever breechloader granted April 7, 1874, that shows a gun with a barrel lug that smacks of a Parker Bros. He was a prominant gunsmith in the Utica area and his son George F. Ferriss apprenticed under him and then worked for a while for Remington in Ilion, but returned to Utica in 1885 when George H. died and took over the business.

Larry Schuknecht devotes two pages to them in his book.