Just curious, does anyone know what year Victor made the 1 1/2 Long spring traps with cast jaws?

Thanks in advance.

If the pan says Oneida Community rather than Animal Trap Company, it would be 1925 or older, in my opinion.

I think they had cast jaws from the first ones off the assembly line. 1887 somewhere there abouts. The older traps are built similar to newhouse as they are nutted on the bottom of frame and have newhouse type springs.

The original Victor traps were called "The Victor" and were made from 1886 thru around 1889 by Oneida Community. They had cast jaws with bolted jaw posts like a Newhouse or Hawley & Norton. They were also made in a dog less model. Around 1889 the Oneida Community dropped the "The" and called them "Victor" traps. Oneida Community continued to use cast jaws on Victor traps until around 1918 when they started to make the jaws from pressed steel for the smaller sizes #0 thru #2. In 1920 they went to what they called the "ribbed" jaw on the same smaller size #0 thru #2 traps. Oneida Community continued to use cast jaws on the #3 and #4 size Victor traps until Feb. 1925 when they sold the trap business to what would be called Animal Trap Comp. of America. Animal Trap Comp. used steel jaws on all of their Victor trap except the #3N and #4N.