MERIDEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Established by Charles Parker to manufacture Lewis Triplett's patented military carbine during the Civil War and to alter Model 1861 Rifle-Muskets to the William H. and George W. Miller patent breech loading system after the war.
Located in Meriden, CT, circa 1830s-1868.

MERIDEN MANUFACTURING COMPANY Antiques Models

TRIPLETT & SCOTT CARBINE Image

TRIPLETT & SCOTT CARBINE

.50 rimfire cal., break open repeater, barrel, and forearm rotate clockwise ninety degrees to extract/load, 7 shot tubular magazine in buttstock, 22 or 30 in. round blued barrel, single barrel band, tang marked "TRIPLETT & SCOTT/PA...