These serial numbers are credited to Albert Frasca, PH.D. All given serial numbers are approximate. Serial numbers begin with the 1873 Trapdoor Rifle. We hope this is helpful.Below is a list of serial numbers for Trapdoor Rifles noting the year and sometimes month(s) it was produced. We suggest that you contact them directly for further assistance.įinally, more information about The Springfield Model 1873 Rifle is available on the Army Historical Foundation’s website, and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History has some online information about the Model 1873 Springfield Trapdoor Carbine, marked NOV76 as well. Plus, the Springfield Armory National Historic Site (US National Park Service) provides some information online about the Trapdoor Rifle and Production of Trapdoors. We apologize for this inconvenience and appreciate your understanding and patience. As a result of this re-prioritization of activities, you may experience a delay in receiving an initial acknowledgement as well as a substantive response to your reference request from RE-BO. There are also several additional History Hub discussions related to the 1873 Trapdoor that you may wish to review.ĭue to the COVID-19 pandemic and pursuant to guidance received from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), NARA has adjusted its normal operations to balance the need of completing its mission-critical work while also adhering to the recommended social distancing for the safety of NARA staff. We also suggest that you use the Catalog to explore descriptions of additional series of records created by the Springfield Armory. For information about the non-digitized records, please contact the National Archives at Boston (RE-BO) at. Some of these records have been digitized and are available online using the Catalog. The series Reports on Weapons, - in Record Group 156 also may contain relevant information.

We searched the National Archives Catalog and located the series Reports of Tests of Ordnance and Proceedings of the Boards Making the Tests, 1864-1905 and the series Letters Received, 1808-1897 of the Springfield Armory in the Records of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance (Record Group 156) that both contain information about Trapdoor rifles. While the National Archives does not have records about the service history of individual firearms, there may be records about the manufacture of that model of firearm. Thank you for posting your request on History Hub!

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