Auction Date:2011 Jan 12 @ 16:00 (UTC-05:00 : EST/CDT)
Location:5 Rt 101A Suite 5, Amherst, New Hampshire, 03031, United States
ALS - Autograph Letter Signed
ANS - Autograph Note Signed
AQS - Autograph Quotation Signed
AMQS - Autograph Musical Quotation Signed
DS - Document Signed
FDC - First Day Cover
Inscribed - “Personalized”
ISP - Inscribed Signed Photograph
LS - Letter Signed
SP - Signed Photograph
TLS - Typed Letter Signed
Nineteenth-century firearms manufacturer and son of the designer of the original Remington rifle. War-dated DS, signed twice “E. Remington Sons,” and once “Eliphalet Remington,” four pages on two adjoining sheets, 10.5 x 16, March 24, 1864. An agreement between E. Remington and Sons and the United States government, represented by Chief of Ordnance Brigadier General George Ramsey, to produce 1000 breech loading carbines. In part; “These carbines are to be furnished with all the appendages required for their use in the service, are to be in all respects identical with the Model Carbine shown by the parties of the first part and tried at the Washington Arsenal, two models of which are to be furnished upon the execution of this contract.” Signed twice on the reverse of the first page by Remington, which is also signed by General Ramsey and Inspector General James A. Hardie. Remington also signs again on the reverse of the second page, “Eliphalet Remington,” at the conclusion of an “oath prescribed by the Act of Congress approved July 2, 1862.” In very good condition, with intersecting folds, one through a single letter of two signatures, several revenue stamps affixed to pages, and scattered toning and soiling, heavier to reverse of second page.
Interest by the US Army in breech-loading carbines during the Civil War prompted the gun maker to develop and patent a single-shot weapon in December 1863. As represented by this document, Remington presented a working model of their split-breech carbine to Ramsey, who in turn forwarded the item to the Washington Arsenal for testing. As evidenced by this piece, testing on the firearm clearly went well.
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