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stock, cutting off a section of the breech end equaling the length of the conversion action, threading the barrel and fitting it to the action, routing out the stock as required to accept the action, refitting the barrel and action in the stock and installing a new hammer on the lock. There were a great many different “conversion” actions developed between 1860 and 1870 and the
Peabody action was about as good as any of them.
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Peabody remained childless. He died at his summer house in Hull in 1903 at the age of 77. His will directed the executor of his estate to establish a trust to fund creation of the Henry O. Peabody School for Girls, using his King Gay Farm and $ 350,000 in additional assets. The trustees
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the self-contained metallic cartridge was well-established; conversions of muzzle-loading rifles had already commenced, and it seemed to be a profitable venture to get into. Evidently with this in mind, Peabody developed such an action based on his original idea of the rear-pivoted breechblock, for
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The
Peabody alteration is simply a shallow version of his original action, but made without the finger lever, and with the breechblock made with a tailpiece. The steps required to convert the muzzle-loading musket to a breechloader with this action consists of removing the original barrel from the
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voters approved building the Henry O. Peabody School for Girls, adjacent to the north end of the
Norwood High School. The school closed in 1989, with the trustees establishing the Henry O. Peabody School for Girls Scholarship Program to provide annual renewable scholarships to women who reside in
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The majority of
Peabody's production was for foreign contracts. They were adopted by the militaries of Canada (3,000 pieces), Spain, Mexico, France (33,000), Romania, and Switzerland (15,000) during the later 1860s. In the United States, Massachusetts purchased 2,941 rifles, Connecticut in circa
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Available records show that the third patent (No. 72,076, issued on Dec. 10, 1867) obtained by Mr. Peabody was on an action system specifically designed and constructed for use in converting military muzzleloading muskets into breech-loading arms. By the end of the
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Friedrich von Martini created an action that somewhat resembled Peabody's, but incorporated a hammerless internal striker and used a toggle moved by the striker to lock the action during firing. Mated to a barrel with rifling designed by
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were directed to retain and grow the assets of the trust until sufficient for construction and perpetual operation of the school. By 1938, the trust was valued at $ 750,000. This is equivalent to $ 16,234,043 in 2023. In 1940,
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and were sold along with tonnes of gunpowder, 200,000 rounds of ammunition, and 400 Mauser M1888 carbines. The cost was $ 20,000. In 1919, Liberians received
Peabody rifles through US arms sales.
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The
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tilted downwards across a bolt mounted in the rear of the breechblock, operated by a lever under the rifle. The
Peabody action most often used an external hammer to fire the cartridge.
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