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Remington 1877 E. & Sons – Rifles, Shot-Guns, and Pistols

43 pages, over 8" x 5 1/2", soft-cover in full color. New re-print restored and digitally enhanced.Fully Illustrated and printed on 20# 97 bight acid free paper with glossy cover.

Remington Arms Company – History of the Firearms Business

1816 Legend has it that a young Eliphalet Remington II believed he could build a better gun than he could buy, and he set out to craft such a gun on his father’s forge located at Ilion Gulch, New York. In the autumn of 1816, Eliphalet entered a shooting match with his new flintlock rifle, and while he only finished second, his handmade rifle was a success. Orders for new Remington-made rifles and barrels began to accumulate from the many other contestants, and before Eliphalet left the shooting field, he was in the gun business.

1828 Remington moved its operations from Ilion Gulch to a site close to the newly constructed Erie Canal. This site, in Ilion , New York , is part of the property on which the Ilion firearms plant sits today.

1860 Marcellus Hartley founded the Schuyler, Hartley&Graham Sporting Goods Company, which would later become one of the largest sporting goods companies in the world.

1865 The partnership of E. Remington&Sons was incorporated as a stock company. In 1865-66, Remington produced the state-of-the-art Rolling Block Rifle.

1867 In an effort to diversify their holdings, Schuyler, Hartley&Graham purchased two small New England cartridge companies. These companies were later closed, and the equipment moved to a new site in Bridgeport, Connecticut. On August 9, 1867, the Union Metallic Cartridge Company was incorporated. It was particularly noted for its development of metallic cartridges. It and its successor company subsequently developed the first paper shotshells successfully manufactured in the United States.

1873 E. Remington&Sons embarked on a new venture, and in September of 1873, the first Remington typewriters were produced.

This catalog offers the complete line of Remington guns in 1877 featuring, among others, the Remington Rolling Block rifles, Revolving Rifles and Cane Rifles, Revolvers, Shotguns and Derringers.

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