psteinmayer wrote on Nov 1^st, 2016 at 2:20pm:

The design is actually Parashooter's.

I thought so until I found this picture from a Norwegian museum collection -

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Literally, "Hagen's load frame", but "charger" seems a better word. (I try to avoid "stripper clip" as a nonsense term invented by us poor Yanks who have trouble differentiating between "clip" and "charger" - adding "stripper" to enhance our confusion.  Of course back in the Krag era, we called them all "packets".::))

Hagen was a significant presence even back when Oslo was called Kristiana (pre-1925).  This Lyman 48K, made here in Connecticut and much-modified by Hagen, was fitted to my 1925-dated M1912/22 long before I found it in a local shop -

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Mönsterbeskyttet = Trademark? Tiny lettering above slide binding nut reads "Lyman, Middlefield". Elevation markings are in meters (x100), calibrated for same trajectory as service tangent.

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Aperture was re-positioned below cross-arm and long stop screw fitted from below, adapting Lyman 48 to work with normal-height front sight.

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L H Hagen

A little taste of a Norwegian Gunsmith’s store from 1908. It’s a pity the fixtures and fittings like these no more are to be found – at least not in our part of the World.

L. H. Hagen was a successful gunsmith and probably Mr. Larsen’s largest customer in the 1870s. He was never the inventor that Larsen was, but he was a good business man and built up a solid business that lasted almost 100 years. He is possibly best known for his Hagen Herkules rifle, built on Larsen’s tennstempel rifle’s principles, but with a bettered locking enabling it to fire more powerful smokeless cartridges.

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