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Box MS454.03

 Container

Contains 59 Results:

Nimschke, Louis D.

 File — Box: MS454.03, Folder: 454.03.55
Identifier: Folder 454.03.55
Scope and Contents

Biography. 

Photos. 

Man at Arms, Vol 25 #1, 2003 with Article by Herbert Houze: The Life and Life’s Work of Famous Firearms Engraver Louis Daniel Nimschke (1832-1904), pp 13-29.

Dates: Other: Dummy Date
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 454, MS 454 - Herbert Houze: Colt, Winchester, Engravers, Auction Catalogs / Gun Engraving / Engravers

Gun Auction Photos & Gun Engraving Details

 File — Box: MS454.03, Folder: 454.03.41
Identifier: Folder 454.03.41
Scope and Contents

Typewritten and Handwritten Analysis of Engraving Characteristics for Gustave Young. 

Photocopies of Gustave Young Engravings. 

Photocopies of Unattributed Engravings.

Photocopies of 5 pp of Colt #29705 Revolver.

Julia Auction Pages. 

Little John’s Auction Pages.

Dates: Other: Dummy Date
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 454, MS 454 - Herbert Houze: Colt, Winchester, Engravers, Auction Catalogs / Gun Engraving / Images of Engravings

Miscellaneous Engravers

 File — Box: MS454.03, Folder: 454.03.45
Identifier: Folder 454.03.45
Scope and Contents Photocopy of US Census 1860 for Hartford, CT, District 2, Roll M653_78, p 1015, image 492 for Charles W. Thompson.  Results of Ancestry Search of Civil War Soldiers for Frederick W. Dart, accessed Oct 30, 2006.  Photocopy of Geer’s 1861, p 81, for S.H. Clark, wood engineer.  Photocopy of US Census 1870 for Hartford, CT, Ward #4, Roll M59_101, p 636, image 144, for S.H. Clark.  Photocopy of US Census 1870 for Hartford, CT, Ward 3, Roll M593_100, p 553,...
Dates: Other: Dummy Date
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 454, MS 454 - Herbert Houze: Colt, Winchester, Engravers, Auction Catalogs / Gun Engraving / Engravers

Hartford Directories

 File — Box: MS454.03, Folder: 454.03.35
Identifier: Folder 454.03.35
Scope and Contents Handwritten Letter From ? (St Joseph College, CT) to Herbert Houze, Nov 26, 2006, Re: Hartford Directories.  Photocopy of Geer’s Hartford City Directory, 1826-1863, pp 188-89, 256-257, 304-305.  Photocopy of Well’s Directory, 1851, pp xvi-xvii, 96-97, 132-135, 186-187.  Photocopy of Geer’s Hartford Directory, 1864, pp 152, 297, 552, 558.  Photocopy of Geer’s Hartford Directory, 1865, pp 214-215, 288-289.  Photocopy of Geer’s...
Dates: Other: Dummy Date
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 454, MS 454 - Herbert Houze: Colt, Winchester, Engravers, Auction Catalogs / Colt’s Patent Repeating Firearms / Hartford, Connecticut

Model 1876 .45/75

 File — Box: MS454.03, Folder: 454.03.17
Identifier: Folder 454.03.17
Scope and Contents

Handwritten Tabulations of Model 1876 .45/75 Characteristics.

Dates: Other: Dummy Date
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 454, MS 454 - Herbert Houze: Colt, Winchester, Engravers, Auction Catalogs / Winchester Repeating Arms Company / Winchester Model 1875 and Model 1876

Engraved Presentation Colt Revolvers, 1847-1882

 File — Box: MS454.03, Folder: 454.03.27
Identifier: Folder 454.03.27
Scope and Contents Photocopy of Colt’s Revolvers in Hartford Daily Courant (Hartford, CT), Nov 1, 1847, p 2.  Photocopy of Intelligence by the Mails in New York Herald (NYC), Sept 7, 1848, p 4, col 5.  Typewritten Paragraph from Daily Free Democrat (Milwaukee, WI), Vol 3, #302, p 2, col 3.  Photocopy of Colt’s Pistol Manufactory in London in New York Daily Times (NYC), Dec 2, 1853, p 8.  Photocopy of On Architectural Material, Structure, and Ornamentation and the Work of...
Dates: Other: Dummy Date
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 454, MS 454 - Herbert Houze: Colt, Winchester, Engravers, Auction Catalogs / Colt’s Patent Repeating Firearms / Colt Presentations

Colt Engravers Book Comments

 File — Box: MS454.03, Folder: 454.03.46
Identifier: Folder 454.03.46
Scope and Contents

Note from (unknown) to Herbert Houze. 

E-mail from Stuart Pyhrr to Herbert Houze on April 19, 2012, 2 pp. 

E-mail from Dorothy Keller to Herbert Houze on Nov 13, 2012. 

E-mail from Stuart Pyhrr to Herbert Houze on Dec 3, 2012. 

E-mail from Donald La Rocca to Herbert Houze on Dec 4, 2012. 

E-mail from Jose Rodriguez to Herbert Houze on Dec 22, 2012. 

E-mail from Stuart Pyhrr to Herbert Houze on Dec 24, 2012.

Dates: Other: Dummy Date
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 454, MS 454 - Herbert Houze: Colt, Winchester, Engravers, Auction Catalogs / Gun Engraving / Engravers

Engraved Revolvers Presentation to Abd-el-Kader

 File — Box: MS454.03, Folder: 454.03.28
Identifier: Folder 454.03.28
Scope and Contents Photocopy of Two Pistols & a Plaque.  Photocopy of The Damascus Massacres in Vermont Chronicle (Bellows Falls, VT), Aug 20, 1860, p 138, col 5.  Photocopy of President Buchanan’s Present to Abd-el-Kader in Vermont Chronicle (Bellows Falls, VT), Oct 23, 1860, p 171, col 3.  Photocopy of The President of the United States in The Weekly Mississippian (Jackson, MS), Oct 31, 1860, p 2, col 1.  Photocopy of The Presents of President Buchanan to...
Dates: Other: Dummy Date
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 454, MS 454 - Herbert Houze: Colt, Winchester, Engravers, Auction Catalogs / Colt’s Patent Repeating Firearms / Colt Presentations

Highly Finished Arms Catalogue, Winchester Repeating Arms Co.

 File — Box: MS454.03, Folder: 454.03.42
Identifier: Folder 454.03.42
Scope and Contents

Photocopy of The Ulrich Family History, 1 p. 

Photocopy of Highly Finished Arms, Published by Winchester Repeating Arms Co, 1897, 25 pp.

Negatives of Highly Finished Arms, Published by Winchester Repeating Arms Co, 1897.

Dates: Other: Dummy Date
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 454, MS 454 - Herbert Houze: Colt, Winchester, Engravers, Auction Catalogs / Gun Engraving / Images of Engravings

Gun Engravings – Part I

 File — Box: MS454.03, Folder: 454.03.43
Identifier: Folder 454.03.43
Scope and Contents

Negatives.

Photos.

Dates: Other: Dummy Date
Found in: McCracken Research Library / MS 454, MS 454 - Herbert Houze: Colt, Winchester, Engravers, Auction Catalogs / Gun Engraving / Images of Engravings

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