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.