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I am in the final stages of transferring all of my IGCo's records to the Buffalo Bill Center. This batch contains the file of the Union Firearms company. It has a few period catalogs, original notarized purchase agreements for the 1914 transaction. The original Charles Wilson patent and a listing of all the finished guns (131) works in progress, etc. Mention is made of a model 60 repeater. The patent shows the interworks. Claude Smith was the Ithaca buyer. Claude was the IGCo. treasurer at the time. I only recorded one Union gun sale when I had the shipping records. I am assuming Ithaca lumped the guns to dealers, hardware stores and the like.
All soon to be on its way to Cody and will be available for study should anyone care to venture there.
ps. The purchase price was $3000 with $500 down and remainder due upon delivery.
All this activity 23 years before Ithaca announced the Model 37 repeater.
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Walt, did your records have anything on Ithaca finished up Lefevers [not Nitros]?
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Regret to say no records on Ithaca finished Lefevers.
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Thank you, Walt, for your decades of work as well as your personal expenditures to collect and preserve the Ithaca records and write the histories. The double gun community is the richer for it and you have our grateful thanks.
Speude Bradeos
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Thank you and all. It was a labor of love.
Also, thanks to all who added to my addiction by helping me along. Not many left I hate to say.
Best to all!,Walt
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Also, a note of personal thanks, for writing the Ithaca book. I have enjoyed my copy for many years now. And, as long as I remain, it's going nowhere.
May God bless America and those who defend her.
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All of us with this disease owe Walter a great Thank You for all he has done to further our understanding of these relics we are so interested in.
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Hats off to Walter, but while he's written no books (that I know of) there's something to be said about Researcher over the years educating those on this forum (and other forums) on the little known details of our guns and ammo. Gil
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Walter, do you know why IGCo did buy Union Fire Arms? Was it for a gun that they never built, like the Union Pump gun, was it just for equipment or was it just to eliminate a competitor? I have several of the Union Arms pump guns and they were a bad design from a function and practical standpoint. Pumping one is very hard to do and never could be done quickly for a reasonable second shot. I always wondered why IGCo bought Union out.
And I too would like to thank you for all or efforts. Your post have given us a look at things we never would have learned had you not saved so much from a trash bin.
Last edited by KY Jon; 03/23/23 04:39 PM.
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Were they buying Union to get machinery for war production for The Great War?
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