I was checking out this article at Garden & Gun:

Make Mine a Double

In it, the author mentions this store about Emile Flues:

"Flues moved to Buffalo, New York, and became widely known for fine engraving and inlays of gold and silver. Buffalo Bill bought one of his pistols, as did the cowboy actor Tom Mix. In 1922, Haile Selassie, the future emperor of Ethiopia, the Lion of Judah, visited Flues to pick up a gun he had commissioned at a cost of three thousand dollars. "

Is there any truth to this at all? It smells very funky to me.

First of all, it appears Haile Selassie didn't travel to the U.S. until the early 1950s:

Haile Selassie in America

Second, I think this is the author's source for this info:

Emile Flues info from Ancestry.com

Older remembers may recognize the person who posted the info on Ancestry.com. He was quite the story teller.

So does anyone know if there's some truth to the Flues-Selassie story?

OWD

Last edited by obsessed-with-doubles; 07/11/17 06:55 PM.
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