Originally Posted by SS336
That is a very interesting design. Wonder why they came up with this instead of the tried and true designs. Thanks for the picture, you have some great firearms. 👍


Actually when you think about that time of firearm inventions, most everything was still in the experimental stages. This particular gun was designed by Andrew Burgess who worked with Colt, Marlin, Eli Whitney, and several others in the gun industry patenting many innovations which are still used today. Patents were in leveraction and other repeating firearms.

It is also interesting to note that Andrew Burgess and his brother both did a lot of the photography during the Civil War for Matthew Brady. Many of the pictures you see in the archives of the Civil War were taken by Andrew and his brother. Another note worthy thing is the picture of Abraham Lincoln on the five dollar bill is credited to Andrew Burgess when he was doing photography for Matthew Brady in the field as well as in the studio.

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