Parker Museum

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Here ya go Charlie. The short version.
Tripplet and Scott Carbines and Rifles

Late in the summer of 1864 Lewis Tripplet applied for a patent for an improvement to the magazine for a breech loading rifle. One of the witnesses on the patent was William T Scott who would become his financial backer and promotor. Parkers,Snow and Co. was called on to produce some of these guns for submission to the United States government Gun Trials in the fall of 1864. Tripplet was awarded a contract by the State of Kentucky and on January 2nd,1865 a subcontract was awarded to Meriden Mfg.Co. to produce 3,000 rifles and 2,000 carbines. All these guns were chambered for the 56-50 Spencer cartridge. These guns never made a big impression on the military or the sporting market primarily because of the timing of its introduction at wars end