I have been looking at Favorites for about 4+ years, on gunbroker, etc as well as a few "in person", primarily recording those who had a visible or stated "serial number".  Maybe can make enough sense out of them to write it up in the near future.  I learned a long time ago never to say never or always.  Favorites have reinforced this philosophy.

Most 7 0'clock extractors had a square cut-out with some variation in the tiny radius.  A majority have a metal buttplate, better made than some of the late 1915s.  Serial numbers MAY be continued from the side plates and continue until the 6 o'clock extractors when the prefix A was added.  Those early As were numbered well above 1000.  Then other prefix letters and at least three other non alphabet figures were used, almost always with letters below 1000, see philosophy above.

Extraction problems seem to be from wear, chamber corrosion and inherent in the 7 o'clock extractor, mine looks like it.

James.

Barrel roll mark

uscra112 wrote on Mar 25^th, 2018 at 4:25am:


Catalog #51 (1901, I think) illustrates the side & wide central extractors.  By #52 (1905 ?), the narrow central one has become standard.  (Why was that done? The wide central one would be less likely to slip by the rim after the parts became worn, which could become a problem with the side extractor.)

uscra112 wrote on Mar 25^th, 2018 at 9:26am:


Tremendous volume is right.  Not only SS (which of course he expanded in "More SS"), but his book on bolt actions is one of the best there is on the mechanical design & function of bolt guns. His little book on set-triggers is like none other I've seen.  Then on top of his writing & research, he obviously spent much time in his shop working out improvements & other modifications on a multitude of different guns.   

Slip-ups under such conditions were inevitable; the marvel is, he got so much right.

Gotta remember that the man who took over the company when Joshua retired in 1896 was a money man, pure and simple.  Volume, cost control and profit would have been his mantra.   (Fifteen years as a tier one supplier to GM/Ford/Chrysler left me steeped in this way of thinking.)   

Borrowed the money.  Leverage isn't a new concept in corporate finance.   I'm more than a little sure that Westinghouse hijacked the company by talking to his bankers, not to Page himself.

Profuse thanks? Of course if yours is already a photocopy they might not want it unless it is a really good copy.