My Barrel is like the oryginal Foster rifle had. Well i was reading about Wesson, and this gun isin't Wesson replica. All Palmetto and UBERTI's aren't Wesson replicas too.
The real is Foster Replika and Wesson was build later on. The Foster is from I think 1836. This are the photo of Foster:
As You see, the foster wgot barrel like mine. There were sometime Wesson's wyth this kind of barrel but it was very rare. I think mine is 1,16m long barrel like foster. It has fast target barrel (info from seller) and was used very rare.
info about Foster:
FOSTER. George P. (b. 1810 - d. 1874)
Attleboro. Taunton, and Leicester, Massachusetts; Bristol and Providence, Rhode Island; Mohawk, New York. George Pratt Foster was born in Attleboro, Massachusetts, on April 12, 18 10. the son of George and Eunice Foster. He began working as a gunsmith in Attleboro during the I830's. In January of 1840, he moved his business to Taunton, Massachusetts.5 The first city directory for Taunton, issued in 1850, lists him as a gunsmith with a shop on Market Street.6
Foster's work in Taunton is best represented by his iron-forestocked percussion rifles, of varying calibers and barrel lengths, which are marked "G.P. Foster - Taunton, Mass." In his' Taunton shop, Foster and his workmen also produced the Klein "bolt action" needle rifles and the Porter turret rifles. Although he had established a reputation for his gunsmithing skill (he received an award from the Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania in 1850 for the quality of his rifles), his business failed in Taunton.
In 1853 Foster entered into partnership with Ambrose E. Burnside and William Bishop in Bristol, Rhode Island, to form the company that would later evolve into the Bristol firearms Company. In a matter of months, Foster withdrew from the partnership, but he remained as the plant manager. Perhaps one reason for his abrupt withdrawal was that his creditors had brought a successful suit against him and his former Taunton associates. On January 5. 1854. all personal and real estate of George P. Foster. James W. Grossman, Stephen Rhodes, and Marcus M. Rhodes, insolvent debtors, was declared forfeited.7 Obviously, the court order could have had serious consequences for the infant Bristol firm.
Foster seems to have been the key "operations person" in the Bristol enterprise. The iron-forestocked percussion rifles, which are identical to Foster's Taunton rifles and are marked "G.P. Foster. Bristol. R.I.", were apparently made at Bristol Firearms and, in the author's opinion, were part of that firm's regular production run.
Foster moved to Providence in 1859 when Charles Jackson removed Bristol Firearms' manufacturing facilities to that city. In the 1860 city directory, he is listed as a foreman for Bristol Firearms, and in 1861 he is listed as a company inspector.8 While in the employ of Bristol firearms, he modified the Burnside carbine's locking system and its conical cartridge. He was granted patents on both improvements.
In the I860 city directory. Foster's only son. George F. Foster, is also listed as an employee of Bristol Firearms.9 (There is extant one .50 caliber percussion rifle in the style of George P. Foster which bears the barrel signature "G.F. Foster.") Both men later worked for the Burnside Rifle Company when that company assumed the work of the Bristol concern. In 1865 they moved to Mohawk, New York, where they worked as self-employed machinists doing sub-contract work for other gunmakers such as Remington Arms in nearby Ilion. On September 19, 1865, they were granted a cartridge extractor patent (No. 49,994). and on July 17, 1866, they received another patent for a breechloading rifle (No. 56.399).10 They later assigned both of these patents to Remington.
After leaving Mohawk. George P. Foster lived briefly in Providence before moving to Leicester, Massachu¬setts, where he died on August 7, 1874.
See also "Bristol Firearms Co.", "Burnside Rifle Co."
I hope it was helpfull ??
