Am I missing something? It appears to me that Mr. Tyson is equating these two gentlemen as the same person in his article on the Marlin Model 90 "Skeetking" in the current issue of The Double Gun Journal? Also adding an s to the name --Curtiss! Aruther P. Curtis had Patent No. 1,239,899 for the "Purdey-like" push-botton forearm used on some Hunter Arms Co. L.C. Smith doubles and Patent No. 1,348,545 for the second-style bolting on Ithaca Flues-Model single-barrel trap guns. Capt. Paul A. Curtis, Jr. was a WW-I vet and the shooting editor of Field & Stream, as well as the author of Sporting Firearms of Today in Use, 1922, and Guns and Gunning, 1934.
