According to Swinney, Livingston was the foreman in the Nichols and Lefever shop. He stuck around with Nichols after ther break-up and marketed a few guns that were either made of leftover N&L parts or exactly duplicated those parts with his name on them. He left Syracuse a couple of years later.

That makes the gun in question interesting. As I see it one of a couple of things happened. Either this was a N&L that went back to Livingston, after he left Syracuse and moved to Casenovia, for either repairs or new barrels, or Livingston had the completed receiver, already inscribed with N&L, and completed the gun in Casenovia.

Either way, congratulations to the buyer. It makes a nice piece of a LeFever historical collection.

If anybody is aware of any Livingston guns that are not N&L parts or relicas I would like to hear about it.

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