Manufactured 1892 per Madis, dust cover absent. Included factory letter lists the carbine in .44 caliber when received at the warehouse on 23 December 1891 and shipped on 7 March 1892 in order number 20955. Also included is a handwritten letter stating that this carbine was purchased around 1925 from a from a "border patrolman" in Texas, who had previously taken it from a Mexican bandit which he had killed.