Adirondack Firearms Co.
Orville Moses Robinson was an upstate New York gunsmith and inventor who received three US patents for breech-loading and repeating firearms. In 1870 Robinson, in partnership with A.S. Babbitt and two others, formed the Adirondack Firearms Co. to manufacture rifles based on his patents at their manufactory in Plattsburgh, NY. The firm is known to have employed Daniel Wilkinson (possibly J.D. Wilkinson, another upstate New York gunmaker and inventor)) and Robinson’s son, William (who would’ve been about 10 years old at the formation of the company!) Adirondack Firearms Co. operated until 1874, ultimately producing what is thought to be slightly fewer than 1,000 rifles of all types, when it was purchased by the Winchester Repeating Arms Co. and permanently shut down. The Adirondack Firearms Co., and Robinson’s repeating rifle designs, represent an interesting footnote in the then rapidly advancing field of repeating breechloading long guns.
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Item #: 50789
Extremely Rare Prototype Robinson Model 1875 Single-Shot Rifle (Post-Adirondack Firearms Co.)
NSN, .42 RF, 22" octagon barrel with an about very good, lightly pitted bore. This is a very i.. ...(read more)
$5,195.00
Item #: 50800
Published Robinson Model 1872 Repeating Rifle by Adirondack Firearms Co.
Serial #116, .44 RF, 24 1/2" octagon barrel with a very good bore that has minor pitting and freckli.. ...(read more)
$6,195.00
Item #: 50792
Published Robinson 1st Model Repeating Rifle by Adirondack Firearms Co. (Model 1870)
Serial #6, .38 RF, 28" octagon barrel with a very good bore that has minor pitting and freckling alo.. ...(read more)
$12,995.00