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Pretty sure the wire snare came out during the Victorian epoch...
....but that covers the timespan of 1837-1901, and frankly I am not sure whether it was in the first, second, third or final quarter that it made its appearance.
Post 1885...safe to say a wire snare would have been in use, with 90% likelihood.
1850's? Can't say for sure, and I'm pretty good at my gizmos and contraptions of the 19th C. !
(For instance--the spring-loaded heavy gauge wire gopher trap dates to about 1898...saw a bunch of them at a hardware store in Overgaard AZ, fresh batch but made to original late Victorian specs. Rather narsty little varmint impalers, they were!)
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