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I think 1945 was the beginning of vent rib installation at Simmons. I can't see Sloan's or SD&G having ribs installed on high grade guns in the US. Merkel, Sauer, and others certainly built over unders with their own vent ribs.
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Thanks for giving the food for thought but where would you think a non-typical German rib without the retail's name atop with say 8 linear grooves and football posts have originated? It could be post original sale and altered later as the vent rib really doesn't have the Germanic look. Also most German vent ribs on single trap and pigeon guns had the inverted "T", or post, supports. Anyone have one with the "football" supports?
Single triggers with "O" & "U" on the selector just about had to be installed here or were sourced from the U.S. of A. and for now it seems that the effort on non-typical German ribs with inletting/dove-tailing in the top tube had to be executed here in the U.S. of A. also.
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Raimey
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I agree that the rib you describe was most likely installed at Simmons, but not as a function of the manufacturing process.
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Anyone know if G&H was a contractor for A&F, S,D&G, Sloan's or any of the other retailer's? I'm sure there were many other gunsmiths in the NY area. But I don't see how it would be possible to order all those guns by wire or letter and all arrive in exactly the configuration as ordered. I wouldn't think the new owner would go ahead and purchase and then himself take the gun to a gunsmith to be modified. So there had to be an inhouse gunsmith at the firearms merchants or they had a sub-contractor who did all their work.
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G&H probably did work for all of the mentioned companies. When I was a pup, the G&H shop was through a doorway in the left rear corner of the gun room at Abercrombie and Fitch. I don't know what year they moved in there. Most high grade vent ribs don't have linear lines in the top surface. That is a feature of the later Simmons rib.
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