WAS VERY FORTUNATE TO BE ABLE TO PICK THIS ELUSIVE HARD TO COME BY #4 UP SEVERAL YEARS AGO.

Ya need to slow down the pic posting Bruce. TOO Much for me to absorb all at once!

Hey brother, I'll Trade you a #3 cast pan Sargent with no chain for that #4 Nisbet, I'd even add a little cash too. Always like seeing your traps, I remember lusting over that #4 Nisbet just yesterday, that is a beauty.

I am slowed to a snails pace now Dale. You know they always say you slow down when you get older buddy. LOL

Brother, Lust is good.

Be hard setting that son of a gun

Super neat trap Bruce.

Just checking to see how the #4 Nisbet is doing?

got to go see it not too long ago. I would have to say that trap is probably my favorite trap of all time. very awesome. I think it is still doin all right. Bruce has got the death grip on it.

Bruce doesn't have a death grip on any of his traps, because he has 3 different metal detectors you have to pass through when you leave and also he has his 6'8" neighbor by the name of BUBBA frisk you before you get in your vehicle to leave, Bruce was talking about doing away with the BUBBA frisk, because.....
Oh, never mind!

Bruce likes Bubba frisking him. Bubba ain't goin nowhere.

Dustin, I knew you would never forget Bubba, the little gal that waited on us at the Café the day you came down when we went to grab a bite to eat. She still asks about you every time I am down there.

Great trap Bruce, nice.

I had one in my hands once.Nice

Feel free to give her my number!

I thought you sold all your traps and had a mail order bride on the way....

is that what that is?..I got a trap with jaws like that but its like a 0 or 1 size with only one spring....pretty pitted cant read pan

Pictures... peaver... You need to post pictures..

Bruce,

Can you tell me what printing is on a Nisbit? From your pic I can only make out Nisbet and patent, does this trap usually have more info on it like the size number and origin etc?

Thanks, Todd

Hi Todd,
There is no size number on the Nisbet's. On the stamp pans only Nisbet Patent is on the pan.

On the raised letter models the pans read PAT AUG 17 97.

The "Holy Grail" of No. 4's?

Bruce, do you have any pictures of the raised pans you could post?

Thanks, Todd

Todd, here are pictures of a Nisbit with the raised letter pan, the hole in the pan is common, most serious collectors believe it came from the factory that way, because most of the raised letter patent date pans have that one hole, also notice the raised lettered patent date on the side of the jaws, not all of the Nisbits have that, this one was the stamped lettered pan model. Not my traps, pictures were taken at the NTA convention in Owatonna, Minn. in 2012

Can anyone tell me what size this single spring Nisbet is?

Looks like a 1 & 1/2, but could be a #2 & 1/2. By the pictures it does not look big enough for it to be the #3 & 1/2 size, and a #1 has only three downward spikes on each side not four. is the ring and wedge on the end of the chain? Nisbet has its own heavy wedge on a lapped riveted ring. Also if you notice on the chain, the Nisbet chain has a rounded top on the link. Can you make out anything on the pan as far as a stamped Nisbet Patent?

Bruce, sorry not my trap just a pic I found on the net and was curious of the size.

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2009 NTA Lima Ohio, had my hands on one once.

Newhouse,and Peck Stow & Wilcox 1897 era traps used these jaws some may even have hand forged springs.In 1925 Newhouse made them again.

Best of the best. Thanks for posting