Your annual membership will bring you in contact with those who share your Remington interests. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.. After making money in the gold mines around Virginia City, Montana Territory, Story hired some 30 men, mostly Confederate veterans, to help him herd 3,000 Longhorns from Texas to the grasslands of Montana Territory. Norwegian-Swedish rifle m/1867, from the initial batch of M1867 made by Remington in the US, Swedish rifle m/1867, made by Carl Gustafs Stads Gevrsfaktori, Swedish rifle m/1867-74, introducing a new more comfortable buttstock, Swedish rifle m/1867-89 in 858mmR Danish Krag centerfire, Swedish carbine m/1864-68-85 for artillery, train and others, Norwegian rifle M1867, made by Kongsberg Vaapenfabrik, A collection of rifles from the Fram Museum, a Remington M1867 at the bottom. //--> When the stamp for the side patents came out Remington no longer used the 1874 stamp on the sporters. Houghton, J.O. Second Media Inc., 30800 Telegraph Rd, Suite 1921, Bingham Farms, MI 48025 USA. Upon reaching Fort Leavenworth, Kan., and hearing warnings that the Lakota leader Red Cloud was on the warpath, Story decided to buy a fresh shipment of Remington rifles and large quantities of ammunition. Essentially a Spanish Model rifle, with two bands and 30.5" barrel, all chambered for .43 Spanish cartridge. Ninety percent or more of both rifles and carbines were re-blued and refinished by the host country to a practically like new condition, complete with cosmoline. The former is the scarcer of the two and 30% should be added to the below-listed prices for the Long Transformed variant. The action was extremely strong, and could easily withstand the increased pressure of the new smokeless powders coming into use by the late 1880s. You may be right that it sat in stock someplace. A very reasonable explanation for why a rifle made in in 1874 might have an 1879 Plaque.