Help To Identify This Single Trigger

[Kevin McCormack]

Edgar - excellent and interesting post! I have a couple of questions: you mention in a number of places your noting that certain markings are consistent with Meriden manufacture - did you suspect that some of the modifications had been done by Remington (or in Ilion)? Also, who or what is 'Stosh'?

The Fulford setup if I remember correctly is pictured in other make guns in period literature much the same as the ad you posted, probably in American Field or The National Sportsman, over the years.

[edgarspencer]

Kevin, Much of what I've said is speculation. Thanks to Steve, I have been able to learn a bit more about the Fulford trigger. The gun is an oldie, 1906, and Elijah Fulford died in 1904. If his trigger manufacture carried on after his death, I can't say, but this trigger has a SN in the low two hundreds.
While I am pretty sure the gun didn't go back to Remington 30 years after it was made in Meriden based on Fulford, I am more certain of this because, A, there are no marks consistent with repairs or work done by Remington, and, B, the barrels are marked Titanic Steel.
Additionally, If Dave Suponski (aka Stosh) is correct about the significance of the letter R in the lower tang groove, and the stock is a factory replacement, I would have to say it is a Meriden stockmaker who shaped it. Remington combs are shaped so differently that I am pretty certain of this.
There's no Order book info available, But I'll get a letter and see if the stock book info sheds more light on this.