I seriously doubt we have enough production figures available on the low end guns to ever arrive at a positive answer. It would however take a lot of evidence to the contrar to convince me that question #1 was any Co other than Stevens(Savage) or Folsum.
I would also agree that #2 is most likely L C Smith.
Based on total production of guns produced I highly suspect that Lefever had a higher % of their total as high end than any other US Co.
Remember that in total production Smith built some 7 times more guns than did Lefever. I don't think they built 7 times more high end ones though.
