SOLD Robinson Rifle serial #4! only 600 mfg. Brass receiver, marked "A.S" by original owner with a nail or punch? 1870- 71? Maybe A.S. Babbitt?

Barrel is 24" long. The whole rifle is about 44" Simple flip up rear sight. More aggressive checking on thumb of hammer than the other example in Nichol plate(#29). .44 cal. The Butt plate, Trigger guard and Receiver is in brass with very nice mustard patina, see photos.

"Orville Moses Robinson was born on 6 February 1838, in Highgate, VT. Although he was drafted for the Civil War in 1863, the young wagon maker never went to war, and worked in a Remington Arms factory in New England.
     After the war, he moved to the northern Adirondacks and, with his experience in the munitions factory, set himself up as a gunsmith. The Winchester company saw promise in Orville’s designs, but as they did with many other small manufacturers, the company bought out his factory, his designs and his patents and made him promise not to manufacture guns on a large scale again. It is estimated that his Adirondack Arms Company made between 600 and 700 guns in Plattsburgh before the buy-out in 1874.
    After the shut-down of his company in Plattsburgh, Robinson, only ever made one-of-a-kind rifles for private clients and he turned his hand to making violins and locksmithing. He lived in Yates County until the 1890s and then moved to St. Paul, MN, where he is listed in the 1910 Census as a violin manufacturer.
    Orville died in 1916, and his body was brought back to Warwick in Orange County, New York for burial." source facebook.com/ClintonCountyHistoricalAssociation

" OM Robinson’s repeating tube loading rifles were made by Adirondack
Arms Company and A.S. Babbitt. The Adirondack Firearms Company was based out of NY.
The Rifle was patented by Orville M. Robinson and Winchester later bought his patents." source Copyright © 2017 The Adirondack Experience