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Smith and Wesson

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Smith and Wesson

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Auction Date:2012 Feb 15 @ 18:00 (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
Horace B. Smith and Daniel Wesson originally formed the Volcanic Repeating Arms company in 1852, and in 1856 went on to form their own eponymous legendary firearms company Extremely rare manuscript DS, signed “Horace Smith” (twice) and “D. B. Wesson” (in pencil), three pages, 7.25 x 20, no date. Document signed by Smith and Wesson, as well as 26 others, for subscribing to shares in the Springfield & New London Rail Road Company. In part: “We the undersigned do hereby associate ourselves together with the intention of forming a Corporation…locating constructing maintaining and operating a Rail Road for public use in the conveyance of persons and property. The name of said corporation shall be the Springfield and New London Rail Road Co. The terminal of said road shall be a convenient point in the city of Springfield, on the line of the Springfield Athol and Northeastern Rail Road for its northerly extremity…Its length as nearly as it can now be given will be eight (8) miles and will extend through a part of the city of Springfield and the whole of Longmeadow…The capital stock of said Corporation shall be Two Hundred Thousand Dollars Divided into shares of One Hundred Dollars each. And the following persons all of Springfield are named to act as board of Directors until others are chosen by the Corporation.” Signed underneath, “Horace Smith, Springfield, One Share,” “Horace Smith, do, Nine Shares,” and signed in pencil, “D. B. Wesson, do, Ten Shares.” Double cloth matted and framed with a disarmed antique Smith & Wesson Model No. 1 Second Issue Spur Trigger Pocket Revolver, which has been partially refinished, to an overall size of 15 x 33. Horizontal folds, trimmed top edge, scattered toning and soiling, tape to vertical edges, and some stray ink marks, otherwise very good condition.

On January 6, 1875, the Springfield and New London Rail Road Company was incorporated in Massachusetts with the purpose of connecting the Connecticut Central Rail Road Company with the Springfield, Athol & Northampton Rail Road. This document refers to the purchase $150,000 shares in the railroad by the city of Springfield along with the approval for "the route and location of said rail-road" as one of the conditions established by the Board of Railroad Commissioners before incorporation was granted. Additional requirements included publishing the Articles of Association in the Springfield Daily Union, a certification that $200,000 has been subscribed to and 10% paid in cash and deposited in the bank, and a subscription sheet. Having met "all the requirements of law", the new transportation company was certified on January 6. On November 14, 1876, the Springfield and New London Rail Road Company leased its railroad to the Connecticut Valley Rail Road Company for a term of five years retroactive to January 1. The railroad was later acquired by the New York & New England Company.

In 1875, the arms manufacturers had also just come out with their new .45 Schofield Revolver, one of the many successors to Smith and Wesson's first offering, the Model No. 1 Spur Trigger Pocket Revolver series, manufactured from the 1850s-late 1860s. Named for General Schofield, the main benefit of this "top-break" revolver was the speed of its reloading capabilities. The Schofield replaced the 1873 Colt "Peacemaker" favored by the United States Army and the firearm became the weapon of choice in the west, used by such notables as the James Brothers, the Youngers, John Wesley Hardin, Bob Ford, Virgil Earp, and Buffalo Bill Cody. This extremely rare document is only the second such document signed by both Smith and Wesson to have been sold at public auction in at least 35 years. Oversized.
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