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Breech-loading arm*. 



29299. Shot-barrel for Mayuard's rifle ; 32 inches, .64 calibre. Massachusetts 



Anns Company, Chicopee Falls, Mass. 

 25873. Six-shooting rifle; 44-inch calibre. Colt's Fire-Arms Manufacturing 



Company, Hartford, Conn. 

 25889. Carbine. King's improvement. (Patented March 29, 1866; October 



16, 1860. Model 1873. Calibre .44.) Winchester Repeating 



Arms, New Haven, Conn. 



25248. Breech-loading sporting-rifle. (Patented October 17, 1866. Reissued 



June 25, 1872; Dec. 26, 1865. Reissued Oct. 1, 1867; May 15, 1866; 

 July 16, 1872.) Whitney Arms Company, Whitneyville, Conn. 



25249. Breech-loading sporting-rifle. Phoenix calibre, 44. Whitney Anns 



Company, Whitneyville, Conn. 



25892. Six-shooting revolver. 45 calibre. (Patented Sept. 19, 1871 ; July 2. 

 1872. ) Colt's Fire-Arms Manufacturing Company, Hartford, Conn. 



Whaling-guns. 



24986. C. C. Brand's improved whaling-gun. Patented June 22, 1852. For 

 use with C. C. Brand's improved bomb-lance. 24987. Powder-flask 

 with charger. 24988. Wad-cutter. 24989. Wad-cutter (inside). 

 24992. Prepared wads. 24990, 24991. Screw-drivers. C. C. Brand. 

 Norwich, Conn. 



24993-97. C. C. Brand's improved bomb-lance. Patented June 22, 1859. For 

 use with C. C. Brand's improved whaling-gun. 24997. Exploded 

 lance. 24998. Lance-hook (for drawing charge). C. C. Brand, 

 Norwich, Conn. 



25251. E. Pierce's harpoon-gun. Patented 1865. U. S. Fish Commission. 



26897. Cunningham & Hogan's breech-loading bomb-gnn, with explosive 

 lances. William Lewis, New Bedford, Mass. 



24. (ACCESSORY.) AMMUNITION AND ITS PREPARATION. 

 Explosives. 



Gunpowder. 

 Gun-cotton. 

 Percussion powder: 



Caps. 



Needle percussion. 



Primers. 

 Wood powder. 

 Dynamite or giant-powder. 

 Nitroglycerine. 

 Dualine. 

 Lithofracteur. 

 Colonia powder. 

 Other explosives. 



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