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One of the products often sold by boys hoping to obtain a rifle was Cloverleaf Salve. The association was so common that the little guns were sometimes called "Cloverleaf" guns.
The term in old documents confuses collectors who associate the word with the Colt four-shot House Pistol. That gun, in turn, is often called the "Jim Fisk Model" because Mr. Fisk managed to get himself shot with one, in a dispute over the affections of one Evelyn Nesbitt, "the girl in the red velvet swing."
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