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It doesn't seem any other company bragged on the famous folks who used their products like Ithaca. From the 1925 Ithaca Gun Co. catalog --







Each page actually has two more shooters, but my flat panel scanner won't completely do those 14-inch pages of Ithaca catalogs of that time.

Not that it means anything, but while watching the BBC World News this evening I thumbed through High on the Wild With Hemingway. The two pictures of Gene Van Guilder with an identifiable shotgun showed a Featherweight L.C. Smith and Model 21. The one picture of "Bud" Purdy he was holding a Remington Model 870.

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2nd page left is Jay Clark; the Gold Medal 1920 Antwerp Olympic Team - F. W. McNeir, Frank S. Wright, Frank Troeh, H. R. Bonser, Mark Arie, Jay Clark, Jr. (Capt). From "Trapshooting: The Patriotic Sport" by D. H. Eaton
https://books.google.com/books?id=6aQvAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA159

2 shots were allowed at the Olympic Games and I don't know what gun Clark used but it might be a pump



He and his Ithaca



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"High On The Wild With Hemingway" is the ONLY book about Hem's Idaho years I do NOT have. But I have Tillie Arnolds book--"The Idaho Hemingway" on page 35-= Gene is shown mounting a single triggered double gun- can't see enough detail from the grainy foto- but looks like a boxlock to me- and from the frame shape- my guess is Ithaca- Bud Purdey may have shot other pumpguns, but his vade mecum pumpgun was an Ithaca M37 featherlight- Hem gave him a made-to-order Spanish double 12 gauge, but Bud shot the Ithaca better--RWTF


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Ithaca turned out quite a few unusual guns during the Flues era (but most of them not quite THAT unusual!) I've seen several Flues, both 20 and 28ga, with 24" barrels. Some hunters' idea of a grouse and woodcock (or possibly quail) gun, I suppose.

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