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I wish the sellers offering allowed "bottom feeding". Unfortunately, it doesn't.
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Bill if it did, I would have snapped it up. There has to be a very deep well of information in those 5 volumes.
Just from the pages of Swinney notes that Robert Chambers posted, Swinney had a genius for research.
I read those notes closely. He was following not only the gunmakers, but then started charting their genealogy!
I believe he was looking for contemporary descendants that he could interview. If that is in those volumes....wow!
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I remember my last dinner with Jerry at the Wiffletree like it was last night. What a guy. Murphy
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Jerry was a great guy. He had a near photographic memory. I spent a lot of time with him at his house visiting and talking about these makers. He could recite his notes without looking at them and then would show me his notes to verify. We would talk for hours, actually, Jerry did most of the talking. A tremendous man.
Sara, who has this auction, is a great person to deal with. I've bought many books from her in the past.
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What Murphy & Chris said, I would ask Jerry a question on the phone and he would say "Let me think about that" a week or more later page after page of handwritten notes would arrive at the house.
I've been friends with Sara and Bill for many, many years and have bought a lot books from them.
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Thank you Pete M. I just ordered a set. I had the privilege of joining Jerry on a few 'research' jaunts, more then one dinner and an occasional mug of Sam Adams. He is a legend in the firearms research field. He is missed.
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Oddly enough, my last conversation over dinner with Mr. S. was not about gun research. It was an animated discussion of "Did cowboys in the old west carry firearms or not?" It was very close to the end for Jerry but he carried the conversation very well. Murphy
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Murphy, Not to get to far afield but I just finished "The Mountains" 1905, non-fiction, by Stewart Edward White. Has a lot of Cowboy with gun information. He tells of one time laying on a bunk in the bunk house and counting 362 bullet-holes in the ceiling left there from cowboys shooting at flies.
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Swinney had a genius for research.
I read those notes closely. He was following not only the gunmakers, but then started charting their genealogy!
I believe he was looking for contemporary descendants that he could interview. If that is in those volumes....wow!
Pete Except when questioned or being questioned, all he ever wanted to voluntarily talk about, other than Remington employees and steel, was Risley, Risley, Risley...I don't know "beans" about Risley, but he sure wanted to tell me. The main reason I wanted to respond to your post is to say...that he felt that he was inadvertently near an epidemiological link to understanding tuberculosis because so very many NYS gunsmiths died of this disease. Perhaps only that gunsmithing and TB are both ancestral, but he described TB as a "common thread" that ran through his research work.
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