![]() ![]() 22’s) and an array of Sheard’s Gold sights in 1907, the Duplex with flip-up bead in 1913, the Vickers Maxim globe sight in 1916, and elegantly fashioned ivory and Pope’s Island Gold shotgun sights. Marble quickly added more sights to his line: a Standard post and bead along with the patent Triple Bead in 1904, Marble’s Reversible in 1906, the Simplex (a lower priced tang sight for. As Marble put it, “This sight may be very easily attached to any rifle by anyone.” It is much ahead of the Lyman rear sight…and when used with your Improved Front Sight and Savage Rifle, it is perfection.”īy 1905, Marble’s tang sight was available in 37 sizes to fit Winchester, Marlin, Savage, Stevens, Remington, Colt, Hopkins and Allen, and Ballard rifles. Newel Rowley of Farious, New York wrote: “The rear sight came all O.K. Response to both sights was enthusiastic. Recession and the “Panic of 1893” delayed further sight developments until 1902 when Marble introduced his Improved Front Sight, followed a year later by his revolutionary Automatic Flexible Joint Rear Sight. Webster Marble arrived in Gladstone, Michigan in 1887 and five years later began manufacturing his first invention: Marble’s Universal Rifle Sight. ![]()
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