Evans Repeating Rifle Co. Transition Model Lever Action Musket ca. 1876 Manufactured by Evans Repeating Rifle Company This musket is one of the renowned German-American engraver Louis Daniel Nimschkes most impressive works and a rare decorated example of a firearm manufactured by the Evans Repeating Rifle Co. of Mechanic Falls, Maine. Made around 1876, it features as its central motif a winged, serpent-tailed snarling wolf—possibly the demon Marchosias—holding a bullet-riddled target. Though the significance of this motif remains unclear, the gun may have been made for exhibition or decorated for the New York firm Merwin, Hulbert & Co., the Evans Repeating Rifle Co.s general agent, which presented Evans rifles to officials from Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Honduras and Brazil in the late 1870s on behalf of the Evans company. Notably, Nimschke preserved the muskets "pulls" (inked impressions of its engraving) on page 66 of his workbook (acc. no. 2018.856.19), an album

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Evans Repeating Rifle Co. Transition Model Lever Action Musket ca. 1876 Manufactured by Evans Repeating Rifle Company This musket is one of the renowned German-American engraver Louis Daniel Nimschkes most impressive works and a rare decorated example of a firearm manufactured by the Evans Repeating Rifle Co. of Mechanic Falls, Maine. Made around 1876, it features as its central motif a winged, serpent-tailed snarling wolf—possibly the demon Marchosias—holding a bullet-riddled target. Though the significance of this motif remains unclear, the gun may have been made for exhibition or decorated for the New York firm Merwin, Hulbert & Co., the Evans Repeating Rifle Co.s general agent, which presented Evans rifles to officials from Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Honduras and Brazil in the late 1870s on behalf of the Evans company. Notably, Nimschke preserved the muskets "pulls" (inked impressions of its engraving) on page 66 of his workbook (acc. no. 2018.856.19), an album

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