Original U.S. Evans 1877 New Model .44 Caliber Repeating Carbine - 28 Round Magazine Russian Issue Equipment The crossguard arms have nice

The crossguard arms have nice patina sloping downward in their three segments

Order 294 mentions 500 'RBD and Commercial knives' but possibly less

I have mine up and waving in the Santa Maria breeze

Also included in the display is a newspaper cutting from Time

and much of the lower half of Japan

Original U.S. Evans 1877 New Model .44 Caliber Repeating Carbine - 28 Round Magazine Russian Issue Equipment The crossguard arms have niceOriginal Item: One Only. Invented by Warren R. Evans of Thomaston, Maine production started in 1873 by "Evans Rifle Manufacturing Company of Mechanic Falls, Maine." Only 15,000 Evans firearms were manufactured in a six year period and then the company declared bankruptcy in 1879, a victim of the Post Civil War arms industry glut and stiff competition. The amazing thing about the Evans system was the THIRTY FOUR round tubular magazine housed in the