Thanks for posting those links, Bob!  They look like some fun publications!

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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Bob
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Sent: Friday, January 10, 2014 3:08 PM
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Subject: historic gun references (FABULOUS & FREE)

Those who may have to identify historic gun parts at some point in their
lives (or simply love oogling lovely old guns) might want to snag-onto
copies of these two references ... they are FABULOUS & FREE !!!!

Regards,

Bob


U.S. Ordnance Department Memorandum No. 15 (1873), wherein the U.S. War
Department is considering EVERY American-made carbine and musket (including
wooden models) then available (including foreign models) for use by the U.S.
military forces ... and has a section for each gun submitted for
testing/evaluation, but also in the report is included a/photographic plate/
of each disassembled gun, and /all its parts nicely laid-out/, with a key
...

http://books.google.com/books?id=4R25AAAAIAAJ


Norton's beautifully illustrated 1880 compilation of the latest & greatest
inventions and improvements in American small & sporting & military arms &
ordnance (replete with cutaway drawings of working parts):

https://archive.org/download/cu31924030759702/cu31924030759702.pdf

Or you can view the book directly online with their excellent book viewer,
for example ...

the Remington magazine gun (Keene's patent) section ...

https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030759702#page/n161/mode/2up

Sharp's rifle Model 1878 ...

https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030759702#page/n179/mode/2up

Be sure not to overlook Norton's chapter on the Gatling gun ... 
copiously illustrated ... (he even depicts one mounted camel-back ... 
the ultimate "Apache gunship" of its day for the Camel Corps ?):

https://archive.org/stream/cu31924030759702#page/n257/mode/2up

  Here is a version of this book digitized and made available for download
by Google Books (although a few of the scanned images are inferior to those
in the one scanned by the Internet Archives, by-and-large the Google Books
images are usually consistently higher resolution than those on the Internet
Archive ... although this may not be the case in this particular example ...
3especially when using their fine online book viewer app) ...(lately it
seems Google has tended making these FREE old illustrated books really
difficult to find in their search engine after various booksellers [paid
advertisers of theirs ?] have taken to selling knock-off print-on-demand
copies of these at highway-robber prices ... just search for it ... you'll
find a HUNDRED ads to buy a modern knock-off before you'll find the
freebie):

http://books.google.com/books?id=zl9GAAAAYAAJ

Norton's 1872 edition on Google Books is here:

http://books.google.com/books?id=vl5GAAAAYAAJ