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I have no idea why the finish is like it is. This is another, typical Creedmoor Remington of the same period. 
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Things you may know already: http://www.harpweek.com/09Cartoon/BrowseByDateCartoon-Large.asp?Month=July&Date=24I checked eBay. There are a couple of seller with the bound year, 1875, for Harper's Weekly as well as at least 1 selling this particular issue. http://www.lrml.org/historical/creedmoor/hw18741010.htmhttp://www.researchpress.co.uk/targets/creedmoor/index.htmInteresting that the photograph is not the same as the print in Harper's. Rockwood must have taken a series of photo's at the event. I would not be surprised if he did individual portraits of the competitors with their rifles. This was a common subject for 19th century photographs. Certainly he would had done it so he could sell the images later from his shop. People would visit photographers saloon's to collect such images to display at home or place in their family album. The GEH database contains the following information. While it lists institutional holders, it not does have information regarding which photos they hold. HOLDERS OF Rockwood, G.G. by State ------------------ MODEST holdings except # (SUBSTANTIAL) ------------------ 1 #NY Rochester George Eastman House 2 CA Los Angeles J. Paul Getty Museum 3 CT Hartford Harriet Beecher Stowe Center 4 CT Mystic Mystic Seaport Museum 5 CT New Haven Yale University Art Gallery 6 DC Washington National Museum of American History 7 DC Washington National Museum of American History (Graphic Arts) 8 DC Washington National Portrait Gallery 9 GA Athens Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library 10 MA Boston Boston Athenaeum 11 MA Boston Boston Public Library 12 MA Boston Massachusetts Historical Society 13 MA Boston Society for the Preservation of New England Antiquitie 14 MA Lowell Center for Lowell History 15 MA Northampton Smith College Museum of Art 16 MD Baltimore Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery 17 MI Dearborn Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village 18 MO Columbia State Historical Society of Missouri 19 MO Kansas City Hallmark Photographic Collection 20 MT Helena Montana Historical Society 21 NM Santa Fe Museum of New Mexico - Photographic Archives 22 NY New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (Dept. of Photographs) 23 NY New York Museum of Modern Art 24 NY New York New York Public Library 25 NY Rochester Visual Studies Workshop 26 NY Staten Island Staten Island Institute of Arts & Sciences 27 NY Tarrytown Historical Society of the Tarrytowns, Inc. 28 NY Utica Oneida County Historical Society 29 PA Philadelphia Library Company of Philadelphia 30 SC Charleston South Carolina Historical Society 31 SC Columbia South Caroliniana Library 32 TX Austin Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center 33 VT Woodstock Woodstock Historical Society, Inc. 34 Amsterdam Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam 35 Montréal Canadian Centre for Architecture 36 Ottawa National Gallery of Canada
BIBLIOGRAPHIC CITATIONS FOR Rockwood, G.G. ------------------
1 See card catalog for title(s) in GEH library. 2 Parry, 1979 REFERENCE BOOK Photography Index: A Guide to Reproductions 3 Rockwood, G.G. 1865 ARTICLE Philadelphia Photographer 4 Welling, W. 1978 MONOGRAPH Photography in America: The Formative Years, 1839-1900 5 Wilson, J.G. 1901 BOOK Appletons' Cyclopaedia of American Biography
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Thanks Pete, the Rockwood photo is of the 1874 team. The Harpers woodcut is of the 1875 team and the picture I’m looking for. I took the pictures I posted from an original Harper’s Weekly.
I have a lot of Bodine info including his obituary. Bodine owned a large collection of firearms and one source believed that his family sold the collection before WWI. His Sharps Borchardt sold at the Amber auction and it has the same Remington barrel, forend without checkering, rounded rubber forend tip and front-sight set back 1 ½” . All Circumstantial evidence but have to start somewhere.
As time allows I will spend more time looking for the original picture.
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I have no idea why the finish is like it is. This is another, typical Creedmoor Remington of the same period. From George Maddis' THE WINCHESTER HANDBOOK, pp 70-71, Regarding finishes of the 1885, "Receivers and buttplates were case hardened as the standard finish on serials to 90,000. This case hardening was of a gray color which gives the appearance of a flecked nickle finish."
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I don’t know about the early 85 Winchester coloring but I do know that a Remington put up and not used would look a lot like this. 
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Thanks Michael, just a thought.
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