Novel folding tang sight?

[butlersrangers]

A participant, on the FaceBook "Krag - Group", posted photos of an 'heirloom' Krag, that had belonged to his wife's grandfather.

The rifle still had its 30 inch barrel. The forestock was shortened and a commercial 'gold-bead' blade replaced the issue front-blade.

A very unique looking 'tang peep-sight' was mounted at the stock-wrist with two wood-screws.

It is a new one to me. Commercial or homemade?

Has anyone seen one of these before? Maker?

[butlersrangers]

The 'Krag Poster' on FaceBook just disclosed that the tang sight on his family Krag is a Marble's 'Simplex' sight.

This allowed me to do a bit of searching. and find some information and examples.

The Marble's Simplex sight was patented around 1908 and was intended as a low cost tang style-sight for .22 caliber rifles, such as, the Steven's "Favorite".

It is evident that at least one Hunter/Shooter utilized a Marble's Simplex sight with an 'oversize' aperture disk on his altered Krag.

[Ned Butts]

Interesting, thanks for digging

[butlersrangers]

Here are the 'order numbers' and applications used by Marble's for the 'Simplex' sight:

[waterman]

Interesting, I'd never before seen one. But how about windage adjustment? What if it didn't shoot straight? Windage adjustment would require drifting the front sight, not always possible. Re the catalog listing: Most, if not all of those models had tangs that were factory drilled & tapped for tang sights.