I know that there is some history with the #9 wolf trap with various owners and updates. I am a little curious as to where this one might have fit in on the timeline. I have had ones with both Manning and Alaska stamped on the pan, but this one just has NO 9. It also has an interesting swivel.

I don't know where specifically it fits in, but Al or JR sure will.

Meanwhile, I bet it belongs in the "#9 Museum!"

Pete

I know that Dean corresponded with dad about the swiveling on the #9 shortly after Dean got it. That swivel looks like the early swivels that dad made. He made and sold a bunch of them that were made out of pieces of pipe with holes drilled for the Jhooks.

its a early dean wilson before he got name change to alaska 9. does it have a sn number stamped on it? those early ones had that swivel. ive heard about 200 of them made but hard to confirm that.

Is it stamped with initials on the bottom? The Manning 9's that I had were stamped with my initials on the base frame.
Like Martenpine said, I think it's an early Dean Wilson trap.

Manning trap...

Awesome.I have his dvd

Could probably sell that trap here on the Trapperman auction

I haven’t really looked it over that well, just cleaned the pan up a bit to see what was on it. I’ll look to see if there is anything else stamped on it. I would like to visit a #9 museum. They really have a neat history tied to trapping in Alaska.

Very nice.

This trap does not have any other markings on it that I can find.

I have some with that swivel on them, I think at least one is just stamped with the #9 and nothing else.

I do have to say that it is pretty cool that these two trapping legends corresponded on an aspect of these traps. We have the ability to communicate so easily today compared to when their correspondence took place. Do you know if Dean purchased any of your dad’s swivels, or did he just make his own?

I don't know if Dean purchased the swivels from dad. I just recall sitting in the Klondike motel in Fairbanks with Dean when he told me that dad helped him out with the swiveling of his #9. He said that they wrote back and forth on it. That swivel is identical to the ones dad made, but dad's were of a thinner walled pipe.

It is a early DW trap. The one that is stamped with a number and initials, is a Steve Titis trap.

Pretty cool

Al, I am pretty sure the photos I took are from the same trap.

i think Steve used the manning pans, i have several with numbers and initials like Al says. the original Mannings ive had dont have any markings on base

Ah, makes sense Steve used up the Manning pans. So even with a Manning pan if they have your initials/serial # , they are a Titus built trap.
It's good to add to the confusion for trap collectors

Is there anything written up on the history of the #9? If not, it would be interesting if someone would put something together. Someone on here shared this cool write up about the Sterling mj600 when I asked some questions about some that I have. It would be really neat to have something like this for the #9.

It's good to add to the confusion for trap collectors [/quote]

Do some of these #9s have some collector interest? I was thinking of selling this one, but thought the pan was unique so I started this thread to find out a little about it.