Minor League Mystery

[krinko]

A smooth-sided cocking piece with a half-cock notch.
No maker's mark on it---just the small crown, as you can see.
-----krinko

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[madcratebuilder]

Is it marked with a V in a circle? It's a forth variation.

[krinko]

mcb---

Not exactly sure what a fourth variation is, since I don't speak Strattonese. Nevertheless, I will forge ahead blindly...
The Minor League Mystery is the half-cock notch and not the smooth cocking piece itself. Most of the smoothies are like the Singer Manufacturing one in this thumb, sans half-cock.
Does Skip list a "variation" with half cock?
-----krinko

[Edward Horton]

Major League finds.

It would appear your "second" photo is from the minors.

"Even a blind squirrel finds an acorn now and then."
Winston Churchill

[bradtx]

MCB, Stratton used the word 'variation' because that is what Cape Pulications wanted...he never really liked it because it gave the appearance of deliniation.

Brad

[madcratebuilder]

mcb---

Not exactly sure what a fourth variation is, since I don't speak Strattonese. Nevertheless, I will forge ahead blindly...
The Minor League Mystery is the half-cock notch and not the smooth cocking piece itself. Most of the smoothies are like the Singer Manufacturing one in this thumb, sans half-cock.
Does Skip list a "variation" with half cock?
-----krinko

Yes, both types of the smooth cocking piece are shown in his book.

[krinko]

Thanks for that information mcb, it's not in Skennerton, not even the S.A.I.S.
-----krinko

[Bindi2]

Thanks for that information mcb, it's not in Skennerton, not even the S.A.I.S.
-----krinko

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