doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Remington Carved stocks,

If you notice in the woodcut the rifle has a full round barrel a forend with no checkering and a rounded forend tip not metal.

I’m trying to find other Remingtons with this or similar carving.

I believe that this rifle was made special, by Remington for Bodine for the 1875 match in Ireland. The barrel is marked with the typical Remington markings of the day, it 34” long caliber 44-77. On the underside the barrel is marked “L.L. Hepburn” (Remington shop foreman) Four times.

I have found one other illustration of a rolling block with a craved stock in a 1964 Flayderman catalog.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v311/mjpetrov/img043.jpg

Nice rifle, Michael!
Why don't you want to use water mark as your copyright sign? Sorry for (c), I have no idea how to type these symbols

Geno, Because I don't know how to do it .

I normally don't bother with this but in this case I need to.

I just took a crash course in ‘Watermarking” photos. I have five photo programs none have this feature but I can download, for a price, software from the net. Not something I do a lot but if I do I’ll get a program. thanks for the info.

Michael, I simply typed the sign on you pic in Photoshop
But Photoshop got Digimark tool option, hope you know about it and can buy this product any time

Mike,

I can't read the fine detail on the image, but why would you think this image came from a photograph? That was not the usual way of working for Nast, Homer or any of the other illustrators with Harper's Weekly.

If you do know the name of a photographer for this image, please post it. I can look up the name and see if any institution is holding his work.

Pete

Pete,

The woodcut says by a photo from “Rockwood”. I believe that it would have been George Gardner Rockwood.


From an online bio.

George Gardner Rockwood who was a 19th-century New York City photographer. He was born in Troy, New York on April 12, 1832, went to school in the Troy area and supposedly graduated with a Ph. D. from the University of Chicago. In 1853, he married Araminta Bouton of Troy and then started as a newspaper reporter in the Troy area. At 23 he became the managing editor of the Troy Daily Post. Around 1855 his professional interest developed in photography and in 1858 opened a studio with his brother in New York City at 839 Broadway. He has been credited with introducing the carte-de-visite format of photography to the United States from France. He stated the first card photograph made in this country was taken at his gallery around 1859. George Rockwood competed with many well known and highly popular photographers during his time, such as Mathew Brady. He was a member of elite photographic societies during the 1870s and 1880s and contributed articles to their published journals.

A search in the New York Times yielded only two articles about Rockwood. In 1900, he was sued for libel by a Dr. Ruffin North because Rockwood called him in a letter "a gilded bubble--nothing substantial." Rockwood was trying to persuade a close friend of his, singer Hortense Pierse, to give the doctor "a frosty breath" and not to marry him. Rockwood argued that the letter, along with a telegram, were private communications between he and Mrs. Pierse and couldn't be used as evidence in court. The judge agreed and dismissed the case. Hortense married the doctor anyway.

In 1908, Rockwood filed for bankruptcy, claiming he owed over $20,000. Of his few assets, some were in stock shares, 383 in his own company, George G. Rockwood Inc., which he incorporated in 1906.

George Rockwood died in Lakeville, Connecticut on July 10, 1911, at the age of 79.

A rare Rockwood photograph taken in 1874 of "Wild Bill" Hickok recently sold at auction for over $34,000.

I have looked at several holding of online images by Rockwood, but have not searched for institutional holdings. Anything that you might have to offer on this would be most welcome.

Here is the 1874 team photo by "Rockwood”.

http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/Outing/Volume_38/outXXXVIII06/outXXXVIII06b.pdf

While researching my 1885 Win. High Wall, which has a XXX serial number and was made in 1885, I have found out that early guns were case color hardened and had the color buffed off at the factory to leave a "mottled gray" finish. Could be the same for this gun?

Rob