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Looks like a 3rd issue of the Model 1.

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Smith & Wesson Model 1 Issues

There were three issues of the Smith & Wesson Model 1. The 1st Issue Model 1 was made from 1857 to 1860 and was the company’s first attempt at a cartridge load revolver. The 2nd Issue was a slightly altered design of the 1st Issue that was produced from 1860 to 1868. The 3rd Issue was a...
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The marlin also doesn't have a removable side plate.

I wonder if any of the internals are interchangeble? I have a 1873 that's missing a few tiny bits.
 
Once people find out you are in the gunsmithing program, they will flood you with "projects" that often are too far gone or not worth your time and effort.

Our old instructor used to say I'll show you how to fix that and then throw it in the trash can and walk away. It never got old.
 
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Mr. Bggs said:
Once people find out you are in the gunsmithing program, they will flood you with "projects" that often are too far gone or not worth your time and effort.

Our old instructor used to say I'll show you how to fix that and then throw it in the trash can and walk away. It never got old.
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And this is where you call them after each individual part has been repaired and say “ this is where we are at price wise, I can either keep working on it after you have paid me for the work I’ve done or you can pay me for the work I’ve done up to this point and Cut your losses, either way I’m getting paid and until I get paid no further work will be done” I can and will repair Almost any firearm that you bring in but if It is a “project” I’m getting my money per part fixed , you will be signing a legally binding document agreeing to these terms
 
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There was a guy in class who did that exact thing. I think he had the gun for 3 years and wasn't finished yet when i graduated. I wonder if it ever got completed.
 
Were I a gunsmith I might take it apart, wipe it all with oil and throw the parts into a bin. One day you may need a part and they aren’t making any more.
Aren’t all gunsmiths essentially hoarders?
 
Found out why theses things break so frequently, the 22 short they are chambered in is drastically different from the modern 22 short . The original 22 short used a 15 grain round ball projectile siting on top of a wad and 3 grains of black powder, no wonder they blow themselves apart when firing modern 22 short
 
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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.
HORACE SMITH `AND DANIEL B. -WESSON, OF NCLLWICH, CONNECTICUT.
IMPROVEMENT IN CARTRIDGES.
Specification form-ing part ojfLettefrs Patent No. 11,496, dated August 8, 1854.
To all Iwhom it may concern y Be it known that we, HoeAoE SMITH and DANIEL B. WESSON, of Norwich,in the county London and State of' Connecticut, have invented a new or Improved Cartridge for Pistols, Rides, or other Fire-Arms; and we do hereby declare that the same is fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, letters, figures, and references thereof'.
Of' the said drawings, Figure 1 denotes an external view, and Fig. 2 a longitudinal section, ot' our improved cartridge.
-In Fig. 2, a represents the cylindrical case of' the cartridge, which may be made of thin plate-copper orany other suitable material. It is formed with a partition, b, across it and near to the. ball 1, which is to be fixed in one. end of' the cartridge., such partition forming between itself and the ball. Such chamber is to be filled with tallow or other equivalent. The powder is shown at e as placed in that part ofl the cartridge which is in rear of' the partition b. A metallic perforated disk orplate,f,is placed on the powder after it has been suitably filled into the cartridge, and between such disk (which, however, may be made of' any other material having a suitable degree ofindnration) and the closed 'end h of' the cartridge the percussion-pellet or primingg is placed, it being made to rest againstthe disk. The end h should either be made very thin and yielding, or of' some substance easily punctured by a blunt point or needle driven against it, and this for the purpose of causing priming to be inflamed either by the effect of' a smart blow given on such end of' the cartridge by thc cock of a gun, or by a blunt needle driven smartly through the end of the cartridge and against the priming while the latter is resting on the seat-piece or dskf.
The tallow used with a cartridge has been generally placed on the outside. of the ball, but never to our knowledge in a chamber within the cartridge.
Our improvement, therefore, and what we claim, is thc arranging of' the tallow within the cartridge and between the ball and charge of' powder, or in a chamber, c, suitably made in rear of the ball ot' the cartridge, whereby the necessary amount ot' tal low for a discharge is preserved with the charge in a convenient and compact form.
We are aware that in the construction of a cartridge it has been customary' to use in the same a metallic plate or disk carrying a capsule for containing the percussionpowder, and having the mouth of' such capsule opening directly against the gunpowder in l'ront'of' the said plate; we therefore do not claim such, but
What we do claim as our invention is- The employment,in the cartridge, of' the me.-
tallie or indurated disk or seat-plate, so that it shall rest directly on the powder, in combination with arranging the priming or percussionvpowder in rear of said disk, or on that side of' it opposite to thatwhch rests against the powder, our said arrangement ofl the disk and priming affording an excellent opportunity for applying the force ot' the blow b v which the priming is infiamed, such force being applied in the line ofthe axis of lhe cartridge.
In testimony whereof' we have hereto set our signatures this 10th day ofI May, A. D. 1853.
Home E SMITH. Q n.. sa DANIEL B. WESSON. lL. s] Witnesses:
C. 1). RioE, J omv D. PARKE.
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