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I recently picked up a Savage.22 single shot/single action 'revolver'. Enter the serial number (leave out the ',' or '.' ) of your Savage 1895/1899/99 in the box below. Therefore, dates may be a year different, especially near the 'boundaries'. Serials did not strictly run sequentially.
The No 6 with a 20-inch carriage had emerged in 1909. The No 3 came out in 1907 with a 14-inch carriage (and with a 18-inch carriage in 1925), followed by the Nos 1 and 2 successors, the Nos 4 and 5 in 1911. The L.C.Smith No 1 and No 2 came out simultaneously (the No 1 had 76 characters and the No 2 had 84). By the end of 1904 he had not one but two typewriters for them.
Not surprisingly, Gabrielson left with the Smiths in early 1903. Under the Union's control, Gabrielson's designs were shared by other company engineers, such as Edwin Barney for Monarch. In 1899 Gabrielson joined the Smith-Premier wing of the Union Trust, based at the Merritt Brothers factory in Springfield, Massachusetts. From 1892 he worked as a draughtsman for New York City typewriter patent attorneys Jacob Felbel and Burnham Coos Stickney, both of whom claimed many of his designs as their own (in lieu of pay). He was Carl Gustav Gabrielson, born in Gothenburg, Sweden, on March 6, 1869.
Gabrielson in later life, when he w as also vice-president at Meldrum-Gabrielson Corporation, manufacturers of rapid production drilling and milling machines.