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I've had this 1878 for a couple of months and decided to go ahead and get a factory letter on it so I called this morning.
The factory information came back just as you see it 45 colt x 7-1/2" barrel nickel finish with rubber grips.
In a 2 gun shipment to a Professor Charles E. Norton in late August of 1881.
No address listed for the good Professor.
Thanks to the internet, google showed me that the Professor was at Harvard and thought to be "the most cultivated man in the United States".
Imagine that.....a liberal Harvard professor in Cambridge, Mass who bought a pair of nickel 78's.
Charles Eliot Norton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The factory information came back just as you see it 45 colt x 7-1/2" barrel nickel finish with rubber grips.
In a 2 gun shipment to a Professor Charles E. Norton in late August of 1881.
No address listed for the good Professor.
Thanks to the internet, google showed me that the Professor was at Harvard and thought to be "the most cultivated man in the United States".
Imagine that.....a liberal Harvard professor in Cambridge, Mass who bought a pair of nickel 78's.
Charles Eliot Norton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Click to enlarge....


